During the Pleistocene, South America was home to now-extinct animals, including the saber-toothed cat. Smilodongiant ground sloth Megatherium and lamia-like Ukraine
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Molecular dating has shown that several extinct creatures, such as giant sloths and mammoths, survived in South America much later than previously thought, raising questions about the reasons behind some of them. Recent extinctions of large land animals.
“There is no consensus in the scientific community about the cause or causes of the megafauna extinction in South America,” he says. Fábio Henrique Cortes Faria on the other hand…
