Lost world gives glimpse of planet before last Ice Age | HeritageDaily

A lost world in Mexico has offered scientists a glimpse of the planet before the last Ice Age.

Scientists have identified a mangrove forest located on the San Pedro Martir River, which is the last remnant of an ancient ecosystem dating back 110,000 years ago.

A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water, first appearing during the Late Cretaceous to Paleocene epochs, and became widely distributed in part due to the movement of tectonic plates.

The San Pedro Martir mangrove forest was once on the shores of a vast ocean where the temperature was much…