Giant tortoise fossil reveals Bolivia’s lowland past
Daily Mail: Darin Croft, an anatomy professor, discussed his discovery of a tortoise shell in Bolivia that reveals clues about the elevation history of the Andes Mountains and climate change. “We’re trying to understand how tectonic plate activity and changing climate affected species diversity in the past,” he said. “One way all this diversity we see in the South American tropics today was generated was through elevation.”
