Aside from supercontinent formations, North and South America were unconnected up until several million years ago; then a tiny slat of land linked the continents, triggering impacts that affected ...

Twenty million years ago ocean covered the area where Panama is today. There was a gap between the continents of North and South America through whic Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT ...

But as pointed out in the new Smithsonian Channel documentary premiering this week, “Panama’s Animal Highway,” this merry isthmus, an essential land bridge only 30 miles wide is under threat ...

PANAMA, Sunday, Jan. 25, 1863. The steamship Ocean Queen, with her convoy, the steam gunboat Connecticut, leave Aspinwall for New-York this evening, the former being one day behind in her time of ...

The formation of the Isthmus of Panama was one of the most important events in the last 60 million years. Now, thanks to a new study, scientists are now a little closer to understanding how it was ...

THE canal proposed by M. de Lesseps, and intended to pierce the Isthmus of Panama is in many respects a bolder enterprise even than the Suez Canal. The engineering difficulties are far greater ...

The museum aims to show the evolution of the Isthmus of Panama, its flora and fauna Panama has inaugurated a museum designed by the world-renowned Canadian-born architect Frank Gehry - his first ...

Shortly after taking office, TR said of the Panama Canal that, "No single great material work which remains to be undertaken on this continent is as of such consequence to the American people." ...