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Many people don’t know that, but there were once “elephants” in South America. Notiomastodon platensis was a gomphothere (elephant cousins) that lived throughout most of the continent except for higher altitudes. They disappeared after humans arrived in South America, around 10,000 years ago.
With many other large and impressive species, South America was a lot like Africa until very recently.
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My submission for the paleoart contest promoted in this year’s Brazilian Congress of Paleontology, featuring our country’s lost savannas.
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