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South America is the continent with the largest number of recorded bird species. [3] Additionally, speciation has occurred at a higher rate in South America than in other parts of the world. [1] This is likely due to the large amount of land mass close to the equator.
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The armadillos are small mammals with a bony armored shell. All 21 extant species are found in South America, where they originated. Their much larger relatives, the pampatheres and glyptodonts, once lived in North and South America but became extinct following the appearance of humans. Family: Dasypodidae (long-nosed armadillos) Subfamily ...
Pleistocene mammals of South America (98 P) Pages in category "Pleistocene animals of South America" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; ... Aquatic animals of South America (5 C, 1 P) I. Invertebrates of South America (15 C ...
Mesozoic vertebrates of South America (5 C) Pages in category "Mesozoic animals of South America" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
This is a list of bird species recorded in South America. South America is the "Bird Continent": It boasts records of 3492 species, more than any other. (Much larger Eurasia is second with 3467.) Colombia's list alone numbers 1910 confirmed species, and both Brazil's and Peru's confirmed lists also exceed 1860. Of the continent's species, 2534 ...
Map of South America. This is a list of South American animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [A] and continues to the present day. [1] The list includes animal extinctions in the Galápagos, Falklands, and other islands near ...