Sentence examples for extinct south from inspiring English sources
Atacama, also called Atacameño, orCunza, extinct South American Indian culture of the Andean desert oases of northern Chile and northwestern Argentina.
The researchers collected 48 different fossils of the extinct South American ungulates.
That's roughly the picture of extinct South American birds called phorusrhacids, or terror birds, that lived from 60 million to 2 million years ago.
And evolutionary biologists have puzzled ever since over where to place certain odd-looking extinct South American hooved animals in the mammalian branches of the tree of life.
In 1938, the eminent maize geneticist Mangelsdorf proposed that maize evolved from an extinct South American maize species and that teosinte originated from a cross between another grass, Tripsacum, and maize ( 2).
Ancient proteins have already illuminated a few far-flung corners of past life, including identifying the family tree of strange, extinct South American mammals that flummoxed even Charles Darwin.
Anodorhynchus macaws depended on now-extinct South American megafauna in the same way, but now rely on domesticated cattle for this service.
Carlos Yamashita has suggested that these macaws once depended on now-extinct South American megafauna to eat fruits and excrete the seeds, and that they later relied on domesticated cattle to do this.
The mammal has not been recorded in the Meon Valley for at least five years and is considered "locally extinct", said South Downs National Park Authority.
Given the available data we cannot rule out the possibility that T. paleacea populations may have gone extinct entirely south of Point Conception during the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene.
Darwin is not to develop the implications of this conclusion that the environment had not changed substantially since the time of the now-extinct large South American mammals, for what then drove them extinct?—until his second essay in the Earthquake Portfolio simply entitled "February 1835" (Darwin 1835a).
