Environment
The Amazon Was Once Open Grasslands
Huge swaths of the Amazon basin may not have always been the bustling rainforests we see today. Researchers have found evidence that in a few hundred years, the land may have radically switched from a smattering of wide savannahs to the "timeless" rainforests of today.
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