Tardigrades constitute one of three clades of Xenarthra. Whereas modern tree sloths are common in the Amazonian Basin, their giant ground sloth "kin" were abundant throughout the Americas. During the Miocene, sloths were conspicuous faunal elements in Patagonia, generally considered…

The main characteristics of Darwin's life and work will be examined, as well as the developments which occurred after his death, especially neodarwinism and the synthetic theory of organic change. In which ways the extraordinary progress made in the field…

Corallus annulatus (Northern Annulated Tree-boa) is a little-studied tropical Boid occurring disjunctively throughout Central America and tropical South America in mostly lowland tropical moist and wet forests (Holdridge, 1967; Stafford & Henderson, 1996; Smith & Acevedo, 1997; Henderson et al.,…

Fotografía Experimental consiste en un taller creado para los alumnos del último año de la Orientación Ciencias Naturales del Liceo Víctor Mercante de la U.N.L.P. El aspecto que lo caracteriza es el trabajo interdisciplinario que se realiza durante su desarrollo…

Recent contributions to the knowledge of Gondwanan cynodonts highlight the presence in Africa of taxa previously recognized in South America and vice-versa. This is the case for the Middle Triassic Namibian fauna from the upper Omingonde Formation, where the first…

The glacigenic boulders from the Hirnantian Don Braulio Formation of the Argentine Precordillera contain a well preserved shelly fauna allowing to a better knowledge of brachiopods and bivalves, but gastropods remain undescribed. The purpose of this paper is to give…

The South American giant short-faced bear (Arctotherium angustidens Gervais and Ameghino, 1880) is one of five described Arctotherium species endemic to South America and it is known for being the earliest, largest, and most carnivorous member of the genus. Here…

Mediante técnicas paleoparasitológicas cuantitativas y cualitativas se examinaron los sedimentos de la cavidad pélvica de dos esqueletos humanos. Los individuos fueron hallados en dos enterratorios asociados al asentamiento español de fines de siglo XVI "Nombre de Jesús" (Cabo Vírgenes, provincia…

Mediante técnicas paleoparasitológicas cuantitativas y cualitativas se examinaron los sedimentos de la cavidad pélvica de dos esqueletos humanos. Los individuos fueron hallados en dos enterratorios asociados al asentamiento español de fines de siglo XVI "Nombre de Jesús" (Cabo Vírgenes, provincia…

Se evalúa el estado de conservación de la fauna de Sauria y Amphisbaenia del Uruguay, basado en el índice propuesto por Reca et al. (1994), y se aplican las categorías propuestas por Ávila et al. (2000). Se analizaron en total…