While it was hypothesized that the animals could have traveled across the sea through matted vegetation, the recent research backed up some evidence that moving tectonic plates and shrinking glaciers from over millions of years accidentally created a path for wildlife to travel over the American mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean, paving way to terrestrial faunal dispersals between South America and the Greater Antilles along the present-day Lesser Antilles arc.
May 11, 2021 11:20 AM EDT
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JULY 25: Dan Huber from the University of Tampa, Florida in the USA, examines the head of a Tiger Shark during research into the biological mechanics of the predator July 25, 2007 in Sydney, Australia. Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) including Huber, plan to remove muscles from the head of several sharks in order to create a digital shark, to help determine it s bio mechanics and potential bite force .
(Photo : Photo by Ian Waldie/Getty Images)
Fossilized remains of animals have been serving historians direct evidence of predator and prey relationship since the earliest times. A discovery of a crustacean eaten by a squid-like creature, while in turn eaten by a shark of which occurrence happened around 180 million years ago from the Early Jurassic Posidonia Shale was pictured by authors of Swiss Journal of Palaeontology.