Falkland Islands

Scientists have debated how the islands' only land mammal journeyed to the region: by a long-ago land bridge or with people. | The enigmatic, now-extinct Falkland Islands wolf had human visitors on the remote archipelago up to 1,070 years ago. | Now, traces of ancient fires and hunting show that Indigenous people arrived on the Falkland Islands centuries prior to Europeans, researchers report October 27 in Science Advances. | But little evidence of a human presence before Europeans arrived in 1690 had been found. | Indigenous people could have originally brought the foxlike creatures, also known as the warrah, to the islands.