Today, the remaining transplants from South America include animals like porcupines, armadillos and opossums. The reasons for this pattern are unclear, Carrillo says.

I think it’s a wonderful thing to say there are animals people have never even heard of.” The new exhibit features a cotton-topped tamarin, a giant anteater, a giant kudu, red-footed tortoises ...

South America's Weirdest Animals (2020) Documentary TV Series. Audience Score. 20. NR July 24th, 2020 Documentary 1 Seasons, 3 Episodes. Facebook X. Share. Embed Show Copied i. The series dives ...

Two new species of fossil rodent shed light on South America as an evolutionary hot spot, a new study says. Both have supertough teeth, which suggest they may have roamed the world's earliest ...

Fossil bones found in Argentina of a large armadillo relative with cut marks suggestive of butchering indicate humans were present in southern South America some 21,000 years ago, according to ...

Bird Flu Raced Through South America. Antarctica Could Be Next. More than 100 million birds breed in the region, and many are likely to be vulnerable to the virus, scientists warned.