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Researchers have found evidence of butchery marks on the back of an ancient armadillo-like animal, suggesting humans were in South America 20,000 years ago -- earlier than many researchers thought.
Yet, this ancient proboscidean—an order of mammals which tend to have a proboscis, or trunk—was ubiquitous in South America during the Pleistocene, which stretched from some 2.5 million to ...
Humans first arrived in South America through a series of extraordinary migrations – and genetic studies now reveal more ...
In Patagonia, at the southern end of South America, scientists have discovered 52.2-million-year-old fossils of a giant evergreen tree that now is only found thousands of miles away in Australia ...
Humans arrived in South America roughly 14,500 years ago, where they routinely hunted giant ground sloths, ... and ancient giant armadillos — went extinct on every continent except Africa.
Giant sequoias wrapped in protective foil as multiple wildfires threaten ancient trees "These trees are adaptive to fire, but not intense fire." By Meredith Deliso ...
Human Evolution 140,000 year old bones of our ancient ... As to why there were big trees in the past that are unrelated to today’s giant trees, ... Think rheas (South America ...
A fossil of an armadillo-like mammal appears to bear cut marks from butchering by humans, suggesting people were living in South America at least 20,000 years ago, even earlier than once thought.
When these creatures lived, North America and South America were separated by a seaway. It was only later, some 2.6 million years ago, the Isthmus of Panama rose up to form a land bridge between ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Behemoth beavers that lived in North America during the last ice age ate little if any material from trees, a new analysis suggests. The extinct giant beaver, Castoroides ...