A real-life snapshot of Jurassic Park has been unearthed in the
Argentinean province of Chubut.
鈥淲e don鈥檛 only have dinosaurs, but a whole fauna,鈥� says Oliver Rauhut, a
German palaeontologist working at the Egidiu Feruglio Museum of Palaeontology in
Trelew, Argentina.
The treasure trove of fossils gives the first complete view of life 165
million years ago. Initial searches have already uncovered the bones of one
plant-eating sauropod and a couple of predatory theropod dinosaurs. 鈥淏ut what
surprised us was the richness in small vertebrate fossils,鈥� Rauhut told New
杏吧原创. Frog, fish, turtle, small mammal and plant remains have all been
discovered.
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