North America, with its variety ... with a range that extends as far south as Colorado. The moose is one of the most incredible and most dangerous wilde animals that live in Colorado, although ...

the maned wolf is not closely related to either of those animals. In fact, the maned wolf forms its own genus, Chrysocyon, which translates to "golden dog." It lives in South America, including in ...

Q: Why are so many South American animals smaller than their counterparts on other continents? —Donald Dorfman | Sacramento, California Smaller animals have an easier time navigating dense ...

and not all of the dead animals that did turn up were tested for the virus. But hundreds of thousands of dead seabirds, including boobies, cormorants and gulls, were reported in South America.

The bone, found in the fossil-rich Tatacoa Desert in Colombia, which sits at the northern tip of South America ... and mostly ate other animals," Cooke says. The bird's leg bone was found by ...

"So it's one of the oldest [pieces of] evidence of human presence here in South America," Delgado says. During this time, at the end of the Pleistocene, numerous large animals populated the harsh ...

“The two continents were continuous along that narrow stretch, so that animals on either side of that connection could potentially move across it.” Africa and South America began to pull apart ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird—which they say could be the largest known member of its ...