Aside from supercontinent formations, North and South America were unconnected up until several million years ago; then a tiny slat of land linked the continents, triggering impacts that affected ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

Twenty million years ago ocean covered the area where Panama is today. There was a gap between the continents of North and South America through whic Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT ...

The Panama Canal changed global trade forever, but its creation came at a staggering human cost. Over 400 years of failed ...

But as pointed out in the new Smithsonian Channel documentary premiering this week, “Panama’s Animal Highway,” this merry isthmus, an essential land bridge only 30 miles wide is under threat ...

Quietly cool Panama City fits the bill for travellers in search of sun, sea, rainforests, reefs and ruins. Redraw your travel map to behold Panama’s most miraculous feats — natural and manmade.

Later, a French-led dig in Panama (1880-89) cost 20,000 lives and bankrupted investors. Only a massive US intervention in 1904-14 finished the canal we know today.

Laetitia Wilkins and her team from the at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, studies bacterial evolution in a very unique scenario: the Isthmus of Panama. This ...

The Panama Canal is an extraordinary feat of engineering. This waterway, which slices 50 miles across the isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is an artery of world trade ...

Isthmus of Panama emerges on the map. The Panamanian land bridge arose because of tectonic forces. Large chunks of crust called tectonic plates cover Earth's outer layer, colliding with each other ...