Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

For much of the Cenozoic, South America was isolated from other continents, allowing the development of a unique fauna. In the absence of large carnivorous mammals, which would later dominate, the ...

A n international genomic study unveiled the longest documented prehistoric migration in human history, tracing early modern humans' journey from North Asia to the southern tip of South America ...

In South America, four distinct Indigenous lineages – Amazonians, Andeans, Chaco Amerindians, and Patagonians – rapidly emerged from a common Mesoamerican origin between 13,900 and 10,000 ...

Scientists now have undertaken an experimental voyage across a stretch of the East China Sea, paddling from Ushibi in eastern ...

A large-scale genomic study of over 1,500 individuals from 139 underrepresented Indigenous groups across northern Eurasia and the Americas sheds new light on the ancient migrations that shaped the ...

These birds, which have been found primarily in southern South America, had slender bodies and unique locomotor adaptations for running, with the largest species being flightless.

Rock solid evidence: Angola geology reveals prehistoric split between South America and Africa. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 05 / 240501125805 ...

And even on ancient North America, which was more connected to Eurasia during the past 66 million years, large birds like Diatryma lived between 45 million and 55 million years ago.

Matching sets of footprints discovered in Africa and South America reveal that dinosaurs once traveled along a type of highway 120 million years ago before the two continents split apart ...

A fossil of an armadillo-like mammal appears to bear cut marks from butchering by humans, suggesting people were living in South America at least 20,000 years ago, even earlier than once thought.