Two years ago a joint team from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) had in their hands three teeth from two gigantic mammals that had inhabited the ...

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Charles Darwin discovered the bones of Macrauchenia, which went extinct toward the end of the Ice Age, in 1838 while digging in Patagonia. To him they seemed to belong to a kind of prehistoric llama.

Macrauchenia patachonica is neither a llama nor a horse, nor an elephant, according to an analysis Its nose, unlike that of most mammals, was right between the eyes, like an elephant's trunk. It ...

Using a new approach for genome assembly of ancient DNA, researchers reconstructed a nearly complete mitochondrial DNA sequence from a long-extinct animal with no close modern relatives. Now, Michi ...

harles Darwin, Mr. Evolution himself, didn't know what to make of the fossils he saw in Patagonia so he sent them to his friend, the renowned paleontologist Richard Owen. Owen was stumped too. Little ...

To 19th-century British naturalist Charles Darwin, they were the strangest animals yet discovered -- one looking like a hybrid of a hippo, rhino and rodent, and another resembling a humpless camel ...

The California Academy of Sciences’ exhibit opening Saturday has an intriguing title: “Extreme Mammals.” Upon reading the show’s lengthy subtitle, it will become clear that it’s not about teenagers ...

Its nose, unlike that of most mammals, was right between the eyes, like an elephant’s trunk. It weighed about as much as a horse. Its neck is long, leading scientists to believe that this strange ...