Tag Archive for 'South American ungulate'

Reconstruction of the faunal assemblage of La Venta, showing the hypothetical predation event with Purussaurus neivensis attacking Pericotoxodon platignathus; also pictured in the foreground are Anhinga cf. A. grandis and Caiman sp. Image credit: Miguel Hernandez.

Giant Crocodiles Once Preyed on Massive Mammals in South America

Aug 17, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have uncovered the first direct physical evidence that colossal prehistoric crocodiles hunted large plant-eating mammals in what is now...

Giant sloth drawing. Image credit: Morcote-Ríos et al., doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.04.026.

12,000-Year-Old Rock Drawings of Ice Age Megafauna Discovered in Colombian Amazon

Dec 3, 2020 by News Staff

Archaeologists on the ERC project LASTJOURNEY have discovered spectacular rock pictographs in three separate rock shelters in the Guaviare Department of...

Theosodon arozquetai (left) and Llullataruca shockeyi. Image credit: Velizar Simeonovski.

Paleontologists Discover Two New Hoofed Mammals from Miocene Epoch

Jun 29, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists has identified two new species of ancient mammals that lived about 13 million years ago (middle Miocene epoch)...

South American ungulate mammals Macrauchenia patachonica. Image credit: Olga Kobrina / CC BY 3.0.

Prehistoric South American Ungulate Mammals are Relatives of Horses, Study Reveals

Mar 19, 2015 by News Staff

According to a team of scientists headed by Dr Ross MacPhee from the American Museum of Natural History, South American native ungulates – the last...