Effects Of The Last Ice Age Glaciation Are Visible In American Crocodile DNA — But How Did They Get There?

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3 min readMar 27

Sea levels — not varying temperatures nor changing salinities — drove the genetic isolation of American crocodile populations on each side of Panama

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Effects Of The Last Ice Age Glaciation Are Visible In American Crocodile DNA — But How Did They Get There?

Written by 𝐆𝐫𝐫𝐥𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭, scientist & journalist