The Falkland Islands, now famous for its sheep, was once home to just one native mammal: the Falkland Islands "wolf". I crack out “these guys” because we’ve since learned that these strange, tame ...

Steward, Julian Haynes. 1949. "The native population of South America." In Handbook of South American Indians: The comparative ethnology of South American Indians. 655–668. 143 in Bureau of American ...

Christopher Columbus’s three ships—the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria—first landed on a beach of a small island within the Bahamas Islands, in the Caribbean Sea, on October 12, 1492. The natives ...

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: the dispersal of seeds from large-fruited plants. A new study led by the ...

The extinct proboscidean species Notiomastodon platensis is observed feeding on Chilean palm fruit in La Campana National Park. Credit: Mauricio Álvarez The extinct proboscidean species Notiomastodon ...