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Showing posts with label Peru. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peru. Show all posts

Friday, June 18, 2021

Scientists name frog found in Ecuadorian Andes after Led Zeppelin [The Guardian, June 2021]

Title:
Scientists name frog found in Ecuadorian Andes after led Zeppelin
 
Author:
Sam Jones
 
Published:
The Guardian, 17 June 2021
 
From the article:
Pristimantis ledzeppelin, known in English as Led Zeppelin’s Rain Frog, was found by the scientists David Brito-Zapata and Carolina Reyes-Puig in the Cordillera del Cóndor, which straddles south-east Ecuador and north-east Peru.
 

Friday, April 10, 2020

University of Southern California (USC) - Ancient teeth from Peru hint now-extinct monkeys crossed Atlantic from Africa

Title:
Ancient teeth from Peru hint now-extinct monkeys crossed Atlantic from Africa

By:
Keck School of Medicine

Published:
Phys.org, 9 April 2020

From the article:
"Four fossilized monkey teeth discovered deep in the Peruvian Amazon provide new evidence that more than one group of ancient primates journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa, according to new USC research just published in the journal Science."

To read this article:
https://phys.org/news/2020-04-ancient-teeth-peru-hint-now-extinct.html