Eupera troglobia is the first fully described cave-dwelling clam species discovered in the Americas, and possibly the second in the world.
Eupera troglobia...
LiDAR (light detection and ranging) has documented 26 settlement sites, including two remarkably large, of the Casarabe culture in the Llanos de Mojos,...
Thanatosdrakon amaru had a wingspan of nearly 9 m (29.5 feet) and lived in what is now Argentina during the Cretaceous period.
Life reconstruction of Thanatosdrakon...
A team of researchers in Paraguay have described a beautiful new species of the snake genus Phalotris from the Paraguayan department of San Pedro.
Juvenile...
Paleontologists have described a new species of large-bodied megaraptoran dinosaur from fossilized remains found in Patagonia, Argentina.
Life reconstruction...
Paleontologists have found insect borings in a fruit fossil of the genus Cocos (coconuts) from the Paleocene Cerrejón Formation of Colombia. Their findings...
Paleontologists have examined the fossilized headcrest of Tupandactylus imperator, a species of tapejarid pterosaur that lived in north-eastern Brazil...
Dr. Nigel Pitman from the Field Museum of Natural History and his colleagues from Ecuador, the United States, and France report the rediscovery of the...
Machu Picchu, one of the most recognized archaeological sites in the world, is located high (2,430 m above sea level) above the Urubamba River on a narrow...
An international team of researchers has described two new species of the frog genus Hyalinobatrachium from the Ecuadorian Andes.
The Mashpi glassfrog...
Scientists have described a new species of the Neotropical orchid genus Maxillaria from cloud rainforests of northern Ecuador.
Maxillaria anacatalinaportillae....
A new genus and species of abelisaurid theropod has been identified from a partially complete skull found in northwestern Argentina.
An artist’s reconstruction...
A new genus and species of ankylosaur has been identified from an almost complete skeleton found in Chilean Patagonia.
An artist’s reconstruction of...
A team of ornithologists from Brazil and Finland has discovered a cryptic new species of flatbill flycatcher living in the Amazonian lowlands.
The olivaceous...
Paleontologists working in Brazil have uncovered the fossil of an ornithuromorph bird that lived during the Early Cretaceous epoch.
Life reconstruction...
A new genus and species of toothless noasaurid ceratosaur has been identified from an exceptionally complete skeleton found in southern Brazil.
Life reconstruction...
According to a study published in the journal Geology, samples of glassy slabs found in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, contain tiny fragments with...
Ornithologists have discovered a new genus and species of tanager on the lower slopes of the Andes in southeastern Peru and western Bolivia.
The Inti tanager...
Paleontologists have analyzed an exceptional fossil assemblage from the Laguna Colorada Formation in Patagonia, Argentina, that includes 193-million-year-old...
