South America during the Pleistocene was home to now-extinct animals, including saber-toothed cats Smilodongiant sloth Megatherium And it looks like a llama Macraw Kenya
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Molecular dating shows that some extinct creatures such as giant sloths and mammoths survived in South America much later than previously thought, adding to the recent extinction of large animals on Earth. Questions have arisen about the root causes behind this.
“There is no consensus in the scientific community about what led to the extinction of South America's megafauna,” he says. Fabio Enrique Cortes Faria in…
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