The isthmus formed when the Caribbean tectonic plate wedged between plates carrying the Americas, Montes said. Resulting tectonic activity raised the seafloor while creating volcanoes that ...

For centuries the West India Islands, circling the Caribbean, and guarding the exterior approaches to the Isthmus, continued to be the greatest single source of tropical products, which had become ...

As a whole, these structures comprised a defensive line to protect Portobelo’s harbour and the mouth of the Chagres River, which were the Caribbean terminals of the transcontinental route across the ...

The closure of the isthmus eventually led to the development of coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean and the formation of a nutrient-rich, upwelling current in the Pacific. It also caused the so ...

This landmass connects North and South America, thus separating the Pacific Ocean from the Caribbean Sea, and serves as an ideal location for observing “real-time evolution”. The closure of the ...

New fossil mammal specimens from Caribbean Panama suggest ongoing marine interchange during the final stages of formation of the isthmus connecting North and South America. Between 6.4 and 5.8 ...

The closure of the Isthmus, which took place 2.8 million years ago, caused significant changes in the marine environments on both sides. The Caribbean side became warmer, more saline, and nutrient ...

a modern-day marvel connecting the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean on Panama’s narrow isthmus (the Canal was constructed in the early 20th century by the U.S, and turned over to Panama on Dec ...

14 rooms; from $90. A 140-acre isthmus resort with water galore: calm lagoon, Caribbean bay, pounding Atlantic. Ocean waves do the entertaining just beyond the simply furnished suites (some TV ...

We landed near the border with Colombia, close to where the Isthmus of Panama is at its narrowest, on a little airstrip wedged between the blue sparkle of the Caribbean and the green intensity of ...

These species, once connected but now geographically separated due to the formation of the isthmus, have adapted to distinct environmental conditions in the Caribbean and the Pacific.