South America is home to a diverse amount of wildlife. From the Amazon rainforest to the arid deserts of Chile, South America ...

Numbers of Patagonian mara—rodents with rabbit-like ears, long legs and the body of a hoofed mammal—are now living in the Al Qudra Lakes, a desert oasis located 25 miles south of Dubai, United ...

The bone, found in the fossil-rich Tatacoa Desert in Colombia, which sits at the northern tip of South America, is believed to be the northernmost evidence of the bird in South America thus far.

Until now, the largest-known animal genome was that of another lungfish, the Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri).The South American lungfish’s genome was more than twice as big.

Numbers of Patagonian mara—rodents with rabbit-like ears, long legs and the body of a hoofed mammal—are now living in the Al Qudra Lakes, a desert oasis located 25 miles south of Dubai, United ...

The South American lungfish is an extraordinary creature - in some sense, a living fossil. Inhabiting slow-moving and stagnant waters in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana ...