The extinct mastodon continues to have an impact on modern ecosystems in South America. Although this prehistoric ancestor of ...

The discovery of three extinct species and new insights to a fourth indicates a little-known family of marsupials, the Palaeothentidae, was diverse and existed over a wide range of South America ...

The monstrous terror bird once roamed the earth, but it didn't manage to survive into the modern day. If it did, though, the ...

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: ...

New fossil evidence shows that South America’s extinct mastodons were vital seed dispersers, and their loss still haunts ...

The large yellow-footed tortoise, Chelonoidis denticulata (vulnerable), from South America and the Caribbean ... Just in the past decade, two mammal species have gone extinct: a bat known as ...

H. F. Osborn, and his assistants have made some most remarkable contributions to our knowledge of the extinct vertebrate animals of North America. The published work of the first six years was ...

It was known for thousands of years by the indigenous peoples of South America ... to be extinct until the discovery of living individuals in 1952. About 29 extant monoplacophoran species have ...

The Pernambuco holly was discovered again in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco after being presumed extinct for 186 years. Scientists in ?? Brazil have re-discovered a tree species, known as the ...

It was part of Megalonyx, an extinct ground sloth, MacPhee said. Like Glyptodon, Megalonyx traveled to North America from South America. In fact, ground-sloth fossils indicate that these animals ...

North and South America were home to woolly mammoths ... Giant sloths Related stories For most extinct Pleistocene megafauna — animals weighing more than 100 pounds — there are still living ...