Ancient humans in South America may have kept foxes as pets, according to archaeologists. Their finding comes from excavations at a grave site in northwest Patagonia in Argentina, named Cañada Seca.

Recently archaeologists unearthed the remains of an ancient armadillo, but that’s not the big archeological discovery. Instead the marks made in the bones are of scientific significance as they are ...

Check out a record-breaking tracksite in Bolivia that can tell us if dinosaurs walked, ran, or swam and where they traveled.

A new study published in Nature reveals that a distinct group of early humans lived in this region for at least 8,000 years, ...

Ancient anaconda fossils show that the snakes became giants soon after emerging in Miocene South America. Their size has stayed stable for over 12 million years, even though other huge reptiles went ...

Traces of a previously unknown group of people, genetically distinct from their neighbors, have persisted for at least 8,000 years in the central Southern Cone of South America, and Argentina in ...

12 million years ago, a fearsome predator roamed the ancient landscapes of South America. It was a giant, flightless bird popularly known as a “terror bird.” And ...

Analysis of fossils from South America shows that the tropical snakes reached their maximum size 12.4 million years ago.

A groundbreaking study reveals that anacondas, the largest snakes in the world, reached their giant size 12.4 million years ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...