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...
A new genus and species of enantiornithine bird has been described from a partial right humerus found in southern Patagonia, Argentina.
An artist’s impression...
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of titanosaurian dinosaur from the fossilized remains found in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
Life...
A new genus and species of nodosaurid ankylosaur has been identified from fossils found in Patagonia, Argentina.
Life reconstruction of Patagopelta cristata....
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,...
Platystele peruviana, which occurs in the Peruvian Department of Pasco, is the smallest species of orchid found in this South American country.
Platystele...
Paleontologists have examined the fossilized lower jaws of Brasilodon quadrangularis, a mouse-sized creature that lived in Brazil during the Late Triassic...
A new genus and species of abelisaurid theropod dinosaur has been described from the fossils found in Patagonia, Argentina.
An artist’s reconstruction...
Ornithologists have described a new species of the bird genus Aphrastura from the Diego Ramírez Archipelago, the southernmost point of the South American...
The sea cows originated in the Tethys Sea, between southern Europe and northern Africa, during the latest part of the Paleocene epoch, according to a new...
A new genus and species of pachycormiform fish that lived 150 million years ago has been identified from fossils found in the Neuquén Basin of Argentina.
Life...
Paleontologists in Argentina have unveiled a new genus and species of armored thyreophoran dinosaur from the Cretaceous period.
Life reconstruction of...
A new genus and species of medium-sized sauropod dinosaur has been described from a single trunk vertebra found in the Department of Cesar, north-eastern...
A poorly known species of hummingbird called the Santa Marta sabrewing (Campylopterus phainopeplus) has been unexpectedly rediscovered in the highlands...
Meraxes gigas, a huge meat-eating dinosaur that lived in Argentina some 94 million years ago, had short arms like Tyrannosaurus rex.
Meraxes gigas. Image...
Victoria boliviana marks the first discovery of a giant waterlily species in over a century and breaks the record as the largest in the world.
Wild population...
