Banks of the Alto Madre de Dios River in Southern Peru (IMAGE)

Duke University

Banks of the Alto Madre de Dios River in Southern Peru

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These fossil-rich sediments along the Alto Madre de Dios River in southern Peru have yielded hundreds of fossil teeth and bones, clues to what life in the Amazon was like 18 million years ago.

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Photo by Wout Salenbien, Duke University

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