A chink in the armour of giant South American armadillos may have left them vulnerable to human hunting. Four skulls of these megaherbivores, known as glyptodonts, have been found with similar ...

A new South American exhibit opens this Saturday at the park in Chittenango. The Wild’s owner Jeff Taylor says the expansion features six new exhibits, each showcasing a different animal native ...

The South American lungfish is an extraordinary creature - in some sense, a living fossil. Inhabiting slow-moving and stagnant waters in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana ...

When Spanish conquistadors brought guinea pigs from South America to Europe, the tiny "curiosities" were bred as pets across a wide swath of Elizabethan societal classes, a new study suggests ...