Stories: Argentina

Stories connected to Argentina.

• An early animated feature is now a lost film.Argentina's 1917 El Apóstol is widely regarded as the first animated feature film. The only known copy was de…
• They could have invited musicians to the capital. Instead, they travelled for four years.From 1981 to 1985, Gustavo Santaolalla travelled across Argentina with León Gieco to document folk music. Gie…
• He went looking for a supposedly surviving giant slothA newspaper commissioned Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard to investigate reports of a hairy beast in Patagonia. It wa…
• The maned wolf helps disperse a plant’s seedsThe South American maned wolf is omnivorous and regularly eats the tomato-like wolf apple. It can pass the se…
• The ink would not flow through a fountain-pen tipJournalist László Bíró noticed the quick-drying ink of newspaper printing. Its viscosity prevented it from fl…
• The pink fairy armadillo’s armour has a limited attachmentArgentina’s pink fairy armadillo has a dorsal shield connected to the body along a central ridge. Continuous…
• The gold-coloured beetle can turn reddish-brownCharidotella sexpunctata, native to the Americas, measures about 5–7 millimetres as an adult. Its mirror-like…
• The Andes’ green mounds are flowering plants, not mossYareta forms low, rounded green cushions in the high Andes. It may resemble a mound of moss, but it is a flow…