Sunken Islands Explain Ancient Migration with an Interesting History

While it was hypothesized that the animals could have traveled across the sea through matted vegetation, the recent research backed up some evidence that moving tectonic plates and shrinking glaciers from over millions of years accidentally created a path for wildlife to travel over the American mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean, paving way to terrestrial faunal dispersals between South America and the Greater Antilles along the present-day Lesser Antilles arc.