Ben van Kerkwyk
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Something like 75% of the megafaunal species in South America went extinct.
Although you are up in the Andes, they may have been more protected from the...
The full extent, who knows though, fires and smoke, they would have had the blackening of the skies and all the rest of it that would have happened during that Younger Dryas extinction event.
But yeah, something happened.
I mean, again, there's been, I think there's been a cycle of...
glaciation and deglaciation in the Andes that's affected the lake and a lot of the stuff up there in particular, just because we know that there are structures, get this, there are structures beneath the waters of Lake Titicaca today made from red sandstone that match the oldest layers at Tiwanaku.
So they might have been made- Beneath the waters.
So the lake level must have been lower.
And then something happened where a lot of water got added and then... Temple found on Lake Titicaca, and this is in 2000.
Yeah, 660 foot long.
Something like that.
I'm sure it exists somewhere, but I have to find it.
So it said it's made over 200 dives into water 65 to 100 feet deep.