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.

North America has had flying squirrels longer than any other part of the world, with the earliest known fossils dating back as far as the Late Eocene era, which was 56 to 33.9 million years ago.

Humans first arrived in South America through a series of extraordinary migrations – and genetic studies now reveal more ...

The timing of when those marks were made is also significant. Radiocarbon dating indicates these fossils are around 21,000 years old, nearly 6,000 years older than other known archaeological evidence ...

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.

A huge stone temple built 1,000 years ago has been uncovered, with the site previously untouched due to its remote location ...

Megafauna paleoburrows in Brazil, discovered by geologists like Amilcar Adamy and Heinrich Frank, are extensive tunnels created by ancient giant mammals, such as ground sloths and armadillos ...

The date that humans arrived in South America has been pushed back to at least 25,000 years ago, based on an unlikely source: bones from an extinct giant ground sloth that were crafted into ...

We know that the extinction of megafauna, in South America at least, was around 10,000 years ago. This is at least 17,000 years after the arrival of the humans who modified the giant ground sloth ...