Wildlife officials in South America are working hard to rerelease ... This is important as Andean condors are an endangered species. For decades, conservationists have been working to improve ...

Today, the remaining transplants from South America include animals like porcupines, armadillos and opossums. The reasons for this pattern are unclear, Carrillo says. Northern mammals could have ...

Llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos in South America are being hailed as heroes of the high plateaus for their resilience ...

This week we’re meeting the only species of bear in South America: the spectacled bear. This is the second part of a two-part series. Watch part I discussing the species’ characteristics and ...

The new findings represent the oldest evidence of both the presence of Homo sapiens and human interaction with large animals in southern South America during the height of the last Ice Age ...

The ancient animal looked a lot like the capybara, the world's largest living rodent, also from South America. But the prehistoric mammal belonged to a rodent family with a single surviving member ...

A member of an extinct group of relatives of armadillos with several species reaching sizes above a ton that migrated from South America to North America. Photo courtesy of Philippe Loubry ...

Two new species of fossil rodent shed light on South America as an evolutionary hot spot, a new study says. Both have supertough teeth, which suggest they may have roamed the world's earliest ...