South America, Africa and Europe were once connected by land routes: 120-million-year-old dinosaur fossil reveals ancient bridge

A new giant long-necked dinosaur, Dasosaurus tocantinensis, unearthed in Brazil, reveals ancient land connections. Its close evolutionary ties to a Spanish species suggest dinosaurs migrated between ...

“Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen” – Bizarre New Insect Discovered in South America Stuns Scientists

A newly identified termite species with a whale-like head reveals unexpected diversity within the Cryptotermes genus.
Reuters

South American lungfish has largest genome of any animal

WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - The South American lungfish is an extraordinary creature - in some sense, a living fossil. Inhabiting slow-moving and stagnant waters in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, ...
New York Post

Prehistoric American peoples coexisted with giant sloths and mastodons, new evidence suggests

Paleontologist Thaís Pansani standing in front of a reconstructed giant ground sloth skeleton at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. AP SAO PAULO (Associated Press) — Sloths weren’t ...
WMAZ

Exotic South American animal still on the loose at Colorado park

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Wildlife officials said on Wednesday they are still searching for a South American rodent that was spotted at a Lakewood park on Monday. A Patagonian mara was reported by park ...