Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 20,000 years ago in what’s now Argentina, some of the earliest people in the Americas encountered and butchered a giant ...

Fossils from giant tortoises, armadillos and other Ice Age-era species challenge previous assumptions about the region’s ...

When did people first arrive in South America? It's a matter of some debate, but curious marks cut into an ancient shelled mammal suggest that humans may have been roaming the continent thousands of ...

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What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...

(CNN) — More than 20,000 years ago in what’s now Argentina, some of the earliest people in the Americas encountered and butchered a giant armadillo-like creature with stone tools, according to a new ...

Researchers have found evidence of butchery marks on the back of an ancient armadillo-like animal, suggesting humans were in South America 20,000 years ago — earlier than many researchers thought.

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