An international team of researchers has documented through airborne laser scanning the existence of an extensive multicultural civilization that thrived in the Southwestern Amazon between 600 B.C. and 850 A.D., and that housed millions of people at its peak. The findings, published after meticulous fieldwork covering approximately 4,500 square kilometers, transform the current understanding of […]
Un equipo internacional de investigadores ha documentado mediante escaneo láser aerotransportado la existencia de una extensa civilización multicultural que prosperó en la Amazonia suroccidental entre el 600 a.C. y el 850 d.C., y que albergó a millones de personas en su momento de máximo esplendor. Los hallazgos, publicados tras un minucioso trabajo de campo que […]
Hundreds of camera-trap records from Bolivia and Peru suggest the short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis), one of the world’s least-known canids and one of Latin America’s least-known carnivores, may be thriving in intact upland forests.