Monthly Archives: March 2024

After conducting interviews in Montevideo, I took a short ferry ride to Buenos Aires.  Just like Uruguay, Darwin uncovered large megafauna fossils in Argentina.  When he wasn’t meeting with caudillo Juan Manuel de Rosas and dealing with chaotic local politics, Darwin fraternized with members of the influential English mercantile class […]

When he was not engaged in fractious local politics, Darwin traveled throughout the countryside where he uncovered large Ice Age fossils — extinct megafauna.   I caught up with paleontologists at the National Museum of Natural History, an institution which had recently launched an exhibit dealing with Darwin’s legacy in […]