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Hippidion: The Prehensile-Lipped Horse of Ancient South America Long before the modern horse roamed the plains of South America, a distinct and fascinating genus known as Hippidion domina...
Read Hippidion: The Prehensile-Lipped Horse of Ancient South AmericaGlyptodonts: The Armored Giants of the Pleistocene Imagine a creature with the appearance of a modern armadillo, but scaled up to the size of a small car. These were the glyptodonts, an e...
Read Glyptodonts: The Armored Giants of the PleistoceneNeotropical Realm: Biodiversity and Biogeography of the Americas The Neotropical realm is one of the eight primary biogeographic realms that divide Earth's land surface. Spanning a vast a...
Read Neotropical Realm: Biodiversity and Biogeography of the AmericasPliocene Epoch: The Bridge to the Modern World The Pliocene is a pivotal epoch in Earth's geologic history, spanning from approximately 5.33 to 2.58 million years ago (Ma). As the second ...
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