A real-life snapshot of Jurassic Park has been unearthed in the
Argentinean province of Chubut.
“We don’t only have dinosaurs, but a whole fauna,” 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. “But what
surprised us was the richness in small vertebrate fossils,” Rauhut told New
Scientist. Frog, fish, turtle, small mammal and plant remains have all…
