This is CVSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor of Professor Avignellis. Climate change is a major, major concern and worry in Latin America. And before there was climate change there was

climate change and I'm looking at a story that doesn't really fit into economic

analysis. It's about the discovery of a new dinosaur. Scientists in Brazil

announced the discovery of one of the world's oldest fossils believed to

belong to an ancient reptile dating back 237 million years that could explain the rise of the

dinosaurs.

Named Gonduanax Paranensis.

The four-legged reptile species was roughly the size of a small dog with a long

tail, about 1 meter 39 inches long and weighing about 13 pounds. This is a little dinosaur. It reminds me not to use my

limited knowledge of paleontology, but that Latin America, South America, is not yet fully explored the way North America is.

Dinosaur hunting only dates back to the early 20th century when they found the first T-Rex out west and put it on display in

New York City and everybody was amazed by the monster so we've only been at

this a little more than a century and Latin America is perfectly good for archaeological discoveries as well

as paleontological discoveries. In the Amazon, it's tough on materials, but you can find the basis of the civilization and was there and before the civilization

Before the asteroid hit at the Yucatan and took down all the dinosaurs are all out there

I was telling the professor this

morning how a new type of ant, little red ant, has been linked to the asteroid

that struck 66 million years ago. Why? Because when the asteroid hit it set up

secondary fires around the world, burned down the forest. That darkened the sky, perhaps for centuries. Photosynthesis stopped. The

leaves fell, the trees fell. The dinosaurs didn't have anything to eat and they fell. What

emerged were mammals, us, not us, but what would become

us. And those decaying leaves attracted a fungus. That fungus made them into soil.

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