Indeed, Hoyo Negro is proving to be one of the most important fossil sites in the world, offering a stunning window into an ancient and untamed past.

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

A biotech company made history with the birth of three genetically engineered wolves: What we know about these prehistoric ...

(In fact, it's three continents: South America and, to a lesser extent ... that could have jumped species boundaries and wiped out all the big beasts. "[MacPhee's hyphothesis] doesn't even ...

First, the llama is the only camelid useful as a beast of burden ... that the action was placed in the higher areas of South America. The national coat of arms, from the 1820s, includes a vicuña.

The word jaguar comes from the South American Tupi and Guarani languages. A likely origin is the word yaguareté, meaning “true, fierce beast.” DESCRIPTION: The largest cat native to North America and ...