by Richard A. Fariña, Martín Batallés, Luciano Varela, Ángeles Beri
Departamento de Paleontología, Facuñltad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República
During its secondment in April 2024, the team from the Universidad de la República (Uruguay) visited many collections in Europe to fulfill the aims of the SciCoMove. Besides, they held a series of lectures in the Iberian Peninsula regarding research in the Arroyo del Vizcaíno (Sauce, Uruguay) as well as presentations of Megafauna 3D, un libro de huesos (Megafauna 3D, a book of bones).
The first of them took place at the Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Paleontología in the beautiful town of Igea, amidst the gorgeous vines of La Rioja, Spain (@xxiiejip2024), where we dared to participate despite our youth is more spiritual than chronological in nature (https://twitter.com/DarioEstraviz/status/1775834881932530075). Also, we gave a talk at the Natural History Museum of Lisbon (@muhnac) of ancient history (Fig. 1), and another at the National Museum of Natural Sciences of Madrid (@museocienciasmadrid – Fig. 2), where the magnificent first skeleton of Megatherium americanum is exhibited (Fig. 3).

Fig. 1. Talk at the Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisbon.

Fig. 2. Talk to the staff of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid.

Fig. 3. The skeleton of Megatherium Americanum, the first fossil vertebrate ever described and mounted and our book devoted to the South American megafauna.
In addition, in this last museum we participated in “The Night of the Museums” talking about the giant mammals of South America with adventurous children that camped under mammoths and giant sloths (Fig. 4).

Fig. 4. Children from Madrid schools learning about the marvellous South American megamammals.
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alexiacomte (June 6, 2024). Lectures in the Iberian peninsula during our 2024 secondment. SciCoMove — Scientific Collections on the Move. Retrieved April 28, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/11rx1