Message #5807

[Essan]

The question of how animals and birds may have reached the Azores or Canaries applies equally to Atlantis - assuming it were a large, mid Atlantic Island.

Unless it had been connected to mainland Europe or N America in recent geological time, one would expect it's flora and fauna to have evolved into different forms - just as happened on Australia.  And, indeed, how, why and when would humans have reached the island?

This, IMO, is one of the strongest arguments against a mid Atlantic Atlantis.