Natural History Discoveries in Brazil
Not all the international news about Brazil is racy or salacious (e.g., about this soccer player hooking up with that slut, that soccer player hooking up with these transexual propstitutes, etc.). Brazil is a large country with a rich and diverse environment. At times it’s hard to remember I’m not in North America, living in a city in the less than tropical south of Brazil, but this is the country of the Amazon.
First, from the Amazon, apparently a new monkey has been discovered. I’m a cryptozoology buff, and discovering new large animals in the world is cool. It’s not actually a very large animal, or very large monkey, but it’s still pretty cool.
More cool to me is the discover of fossil evidence for a large predator, an armadillo-like crocodile from 90 million years ago, that used to terrorize smaller critters in the area of ancient Sao Paulo.
July 13th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
hey Mike, just like some 5 months ago, some tunnels escavated by giant armadillos (real armadillos, I mean, mammals) were found just north of Porto Alegre, here in Novo Hamburgo.
Just as a comparassion, these tunnels are 2 meters wide, while today armadillo´s tunnels are no more than 50cm wide.
btw, you do realize that Rio Grande do Sul is the birthplace of dinossaurs right?? The oldest dinoussaurs fossils ever were all found in Rio Grande do Sul and Argentina.