Living 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.