Crocodiles are resilient animals from a lineage that has survived for over 200 million years. Skilled swimmers, crocodiles can travel long distances and live in freshwater or marine environments. But they can’t roam far on land. American crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus) are found in the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of the Neotropics but they arrived in the Pacific before Panama existed, according to researchers from McGill University.

Classified as: crocodiles, panama, Caribbean, Pacific, evolution, ice age, Hans Larsson, José Avila-Cervantes
Published on: 16 Feb 2021

"A new virus invading parts of Central and South America and now the Caribbean is causing concern among people living in and travelling to infected countries. Transmitted by the aggressive Aedes mosquito, the Zika virus has spread to at least 23 countries and will likely infect tens of millions of people in a few short years." (CTV News)

Classified as: virus, Brazil, Philip Oxhorn, South America, brian ward, zika, Caribbean
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Published on: 27 Jan 2016
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