A new genus and species of temnospondyl amphibian has been described by a team of paleontologists from the Universidade Federal do Pampa, the Universidade...
A previously unknown species of small and rapid carnivorous dinosaur lived among the large and dry sand dunes of the Botucatu paleodesert, a vast desert...
A new genus and species of silesaur being named Amanasaurus nesbitti has been discovered by a duo of paleontologists at the Federal University of Santa...
A new genus and species of pterosaur precursor has been described from a 230-million-year-old partial skeleton found in southern Brazil.
Life reconstruction...
Archaeologists in Brazil say they have unearthed 25,000- to 27,000-year-old pendants made of bony material from the extinct giant ground sloth Glossotherium...
Paleontologists have examined an almost complete skeleton of Macrocollum itaquii, an unaysaurid sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in what is now Brazil...
Researchers have described a new species of the fish genus Sturisoma from Madeira River basin in Bolivia and Brazil.
Live specimen of Sturisoma reisi from...
ATF3, a gene that leads to a taller nose (from top to bottom), may have been the product of natural selection as ancient humans adapted to colder climates...
Paleontologists have identified a new species of the extinct frog genus Baurubatrachus from fossils found in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Life reconstruction...
In the Monte Alto region in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of a new crocodyliform species that...
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of titanosaurian dinosaur from the fossilized remains found in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
Life...
Paleontologists have discovered a new fossil reptile that lived during the Late Triassic epoch in southern Brazil.
Life reconstruction of Stenoscelida...
Scientists have described a new species of the flowering plant genus Thismia from a forest in the Mantiqueira mountains in southeast Brazil.
Thismia mantiqueirensis,...
Paleontologists have examined the fossilized lower jaws of Brasilodon quadrangularis, a mouse-sized creature that lived in Brazil during the Late Triassic...
Eupera troglobia is the first fully described cave-dwelling clam species discovered in the Americas, and possibly the second in the world.
Eupera troglobia...
A team of scientists from Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the Federal University of Rondônia and the Federal University of Bahia has...
Paleontologists have examined the fossilized headcrest of Tupandactylus imperator, a species of tapejarid pterosaur that lived in north-eastern Brazil...
A team of ornithologists from Brazil and Finland has discovered a cryptic new species of flatbill flycatcher living in the Amazonian lowlands.
The olivaceous...
