Description: Explore New York's nature and natural history. Learn about New York's prehistorical landscape, its first peoples, its diverse habitats, its wild plants and animals.
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You may be surprised to learn that the site of New York City is a geological hotspot, located at the eastern edge of North America where continents fused and rifted apart. In these pages you can read about the region’s billion-year-old geological history as told in its rocks, the evolution of its flora and fauna as told in its fossils, the advances and retreats of multiple glaciers, and radical changes in the landscape. You can discover how New York’s modern habitats evolved through natural processes, how t
Come on in and look around, build your knowledge of New York’s nature, and if you’re able, go outside and explore! If you can’t get outside, then enjoy a virtual tour of New York’s nature in these pages.