Animals populated Madagascar by rafting there
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 21 January, 2010
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How did the lemurs, flying foxes and narrow-striped mongooses get to the large, isolated island of Madagascar sometime after 65 million years ago? A pair of scientists say their research confirms the longstanding idea that the animals hitched rides on natural rafts blown out to sea....