Other / Unknown · Argentina · 1890

ARG-1890ID case-eb056dfcedFallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026

Creature: Other / Unknown
When: 1890to the year
Where: Argentinafallback location
Reports: 5 documents1 independent

The account

Professor Onelli recounts that explorer Ramon Lista fired upon and hit a creature resembling an ancient edentate in Patagonia in 1890 without hurting it.

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Details

Creature: Other / Unknown
Where: Argentina
mapped to country level · from the country named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the country named in the report (exact place not found).
When: 1890
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 9, 2026
Case id: case-eb056dfced

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Source trail (1)

Down the rabbit hole → 5 documents, and how they connect

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Image 3 of The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram (Richmond, Ind.), March 16, 1922
Newspaper · 1922-03-16
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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