Dr. Jeffrey McKinnon, Professor, Department of Biology, East Carolina University
Most lakes are less than 15,000 years old and short-lived, but there is a much smaller number of ancient lakes, tectonic in origin and often millions of years old, that are scattered across every continent but Antarctica. Examples include Baikal, Tanganyika, Victoria, Titicaca, and Biwa. Often these lakes are filled with a diversity of fish, crustaceans, snails and other creatures found nowhere else in the world. Join Jeffrey McKinnon to learn more about the remarkable living diversity of these aquatic bodies and the surprising, often controversial, findings about the formation and persistence of the species living in them.
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