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21/10/2020 | News

Ferrucyon avius: the new genus of canidae described by CONICET researchers
A recent study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, CONICET researchers Damián Ruiz Ramoni and Francisco Prevosti together with scientists from Mexico and Italy, proposed a new genus of canidae. The find solves a 30-year-old mystery in the evolutionary history of southern canidae. It was based on the reinterpretation of a fossil...

16/05/2019 | News

Scientists found 15 thousand-year-old bear and wolf fossils in a submerged cave
Arctotherium and Protocyon are bear and wolf genera that lived in South America and extinguished 10 thousand years ago. Their predecessors had emerged in North America much earlier and reached this part of the world during the phenomenon known as the Great American Biotic Exchange (GIBA), the migration of different species from one continental...

19/10/2018 | Scientific promotion

In San Juan, scientists discover a new South American fish that lived 7 Myr ago
The Anablepidae, also known as “madrecitas de agua”, are a family of South American fishes whose evolution is not totally understood. So far, the oldest fossil specimens of this group that are known only come from the West of Argentina and are represented by three species very different from the living ones. The remains were found in...