South America is home to a diverse amount of wildlife. From the Amazon rainforest to the arid deserts of Chile, South America has a variety of habitats and climates that make it one of the most ...

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 ...

A strange and mysterious extinct dog breed from far southern South America might not have been a dog at all. The “Fuegian dogs” that lived with the Indigenous peoples of the Tierra del Fuego ...

Nutrias are herbivorous, semiaquatic rodents from South America, and they were first introduced to Louisiana for its fur. The rodent has become a pest in Louisiana due to their vegetarian eating ...