Sentences with phrase «mammals reached the island»
To that end, new evidence supports a theory that some experts once considered unlikely: namely, that the forerunners of Madagascar's modern mammals reached the island millions of years ago by drifting from the African mainland across the Mozambique Channel on giant rafts of vegetation ripped from the shore and launched out to sea by violent storms.
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If it reaches the ocean, he says, it could impact the North Water Polynya, an ice - free area off the island's northwest coast that provides important year - round habitat for marine mammals and birds.
Travel to the northern reaches of Baffin Island to experience the floe edge — also known as the «line of life» — where the sea ice opens up, and marine mammals and other wildlife congregate.