Posted by: Editor on Dec 05, 2007 – 12:58 PM
newsandinfo  Divers exploring a water-filled sinkhole in the islands of the Bahamas recently recovered one of the world’s largest and most pristinely preserved collections of animal and plant fossils from a tropical island.

Like a time machine, the fossils reveal in stages what ecosystems were like on the island of Abaco from periods between 12,000 to 1,000 years ago.

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Bahamas Sinkhole Yields Fossil Treasure Trove
Jennifer Viegas
Discovery News
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/12/03/tropical-island-fossils/