Talk:Isthmus of Panama
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[edit] Misleading ?
I find this sentence slightly misleading : "ancestors of bears, cats, dogs, horses, llamas, and raccoons all made the trek south across the isthmus". It suggests that bears, dogs, cats, horses, llamas and raccoons evolved in South America. I don't think this is scientifically accurate. I am sure that for example the domestic cat evolved in Africa.
--Minotaur500 21:26, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
- No, it means that they moved south from North America to South America. Cats means the cat species native to the new world. The way, the truth, and the light 22:12, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pliocene sea level
I thought it might be worthy of note that the isthmus's formation 3 million years ago would have been during the Pliocene period, when sea levels were higher than current levels.
--Minotaur500 21:54, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
