Fossils discovered on Barro Colorado Island suggest central Panama was once home to a vast mangrove forest that was preserved when a volcanic mudflow buried it 23 million years ago.

This discovery is detailed in the scientific paper “An early Miocene (Aquitanian) mangrove fossil forest buried by a volcanic lahar at Barro Colorado Island, Panama”, published online in the ...

The garden of Earthly delights that is Panama’s Barro Colorado Island. Courtesy of Smithsonian. It happened on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, home to a one-of-a-kind rainforest laboratory that ...

Researchers studying on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal recently uncovered an entire lost ancient mangrove forest over 22 million years old, thanks to the discovery of the fossilized ...

Most “Monkey Island Panama” tour operators refer to the area as ... We motored out on the lake for about half an hour before slowing down when we reached a series of mangrove-clad small islands.

Conservation groups in Panama are trying to halt the construction of a new port in the Pacific province of Chiriquí that they say could destroy breeding grounds and nurseries for marine species.

Conservation groups in Panama are trying to halt the construction of a new port in the Pacific province of Chiriquí that they say could destroy breeding grounds and nurseries for marine species ...