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A 9-Million-Year-Old Tooth Just Challenged What Scientists Thought They Knew About the Atacama Desert


Scientists were surprised to discover a fossilized tooth from a capybara that lived almost 9 million years ago in what is now northern Chile’s Atacama Desert.

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