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Replica of a Mylodon inside the cave The "Devil's Chair" at the entrance of the monumental cave Interior of the largest cave. Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument is a Natural Monument located in the Chilean Patagonia, [1] 24 km (15 mi) northwest of Puerto Natales and 270 km (168 mi) north of Punta Arenas.
Various fossil primates have been found in South America and adjacent regions such as Panama and the Caribbean. [1] Presently, 78 species of New World monkeys have been registered in South America. [2]
The following are lists of prehistoric animals: By type. Land and avian animals. List of prehistoric amphibian genera; List of prehistoric mammals;
The city of Puerto Natales exists within the larger Natales commune, one of eleven communes in the Magallanes Region. Since the entire province of Última Esperanza (56,554 km 2 (21,836 sq mi)) is divided into only two communes, the result is a rather large but sparsely populated area for the Natales commune.
The more than 300-million-year-old fossilized hell-spawn remains of the spider-like creature were found preserved in ironstone in central France.
This is a list of South American animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [A] and continues to the present day. [1] The list includes animal extinctions in the Galápagos, Falklands, and other islands
Aktiogavialis is an extinct genus of crocodylian that lived from the Oligocene until the Miocene in what is now the Caribbean.Two species have been described: Aktiogavialis puertoricensis from the Middle Oligocene of Puerto Rico and Aktiogavialis caribesi from the Huayquerian of the Late Miocene of Venezuela.
Fishing for L. santolla in Ushuaia Bay. The population of Lithodes santolla has seen a dramatic decline due to commercial fishing. [5]The lucrative centolla fishery around Tierra del Fuego led to an incident in August 1967 when the Argentine schooner Cruz del Sur was found fishing 400 metres (1,300 ft) from Gable Island and had to be escorted out of Chilean waters by the Chilean patrol boat ...