In the remote wilderness of southern South America, early explorers claimed to witness something extraordinary,giants towering above ordinary men. These weren't just myths or sailors’ tales. In 1766, ...

Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: the dispersal of seeds from large-fruited plants. A new study led by the ...

Reconstruction of the paleoenvironments in which Chilean mastodons lived, from the semi-arid north to the cold rainforests of Patagonia. Author: Mauricio Álvarez ...