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Caverna da Pedra Pintada (Painted Rock Cave), is an archaeological site in northern Brazil with evidence of human presence dating ca. 11,200 years ago. [1] [2]This find has challenged previous thinking about patterns of human settlement in South America.
The snake elements were described as those of a novel, giant boid snake that they named Titanoboa cerrejonensis. The genus name derives from the Greek word "Titan" in addition to Boa, the type genus of the family Boidae. The species name is a reference to the Cerrejón region it is known from.
The green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), also known as the giant anaconda, emerald anaconda, common anaconda, common water boa, or southern green anaconda, is a semi-aquatic boa species found in South America and the Caribbean island of Trinidad. It is the largest, heaviest, and second longest snake in the world, after the reticulated python.
A new snake species, the northern green anaconda, sits on a riverbank in the Amazon's Orinoco basin. “The size of these magnificent creatures was incredible," Fry said in a news release earlier ...
Peru, Bolivia, French Guiana, Suriname and Brazil [18] E. notaeus: Cope, 1862 [3] Yellow anaconda South America in eastern Bolivia, central-western Brazil, Paraguay and northeastern Argentina [2] †E. stirtoni: Hoffstetter and Rage, 1977 [20] This species is extinct; its fossils have been found in the La Venta fauna in Colombia. Its validity ...
A video shared online shows the scale of these 20-foot-long (6.1-meter-long) reptiles as one of the researchers, Dutch biologist Freek Vonk, swims alongside a giant 200-kilo (441-pound) specimen.
A map shows where Raoni’s armored catfish has been found in northern Brazil, about 1,900 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro. A map of where Scobinancistrus raonii, or Raoni’s armored catfish ...
Gruta Casa de Pedra cave mouth. Gruta Casa de Pedra (SP-009) is a cave located in the karstic region of the Alto Ribeira Tourist State Park, between the municipalities of Apiaí and Iporanga, to the south of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. [1] It is 2,930 meters long and features the largest cave mouth in the world, measuring 172 meters high. [2]