Within the Pleistocene Epoch, South America was house to now-extinct animals, together with the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon, the large floor sloth Megatherium and the llama-like Macrauchenia
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Molecular relationship has proven that a number of extinct creatures, equivalent to big sloths and mammoths, survived in South America a lot later than beforehand thought, elevating questions in regards to the root causes behind a few of Earth’s most up-to-date giant animal extinctions.
“There is no consensus in the scientific community about the cause or causes that led to the extinction of megafauna in South America,” says Fábio Henrique Cortes Faria on the…
