Palaeontologists in southern Argentina have uncovered an enormous networkof fossils dating back to the Jurassic period, enabling them to reconstruct an entire ecosystem that has remained frozen in time for around 140 to 160 million years. The discovery occurred in the locality of La Bajada, in a region of southeast Patagonia called the Deseado Massif,…
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Most Species That Go Extinct In Modern Times Will Leave No Permanent Trace
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We already know that the current fossil record is incredibly incomplete. The conditions needed to preserve the remains of an animal after it dies are so specificthat only a fraction of the billions of creatures to have walked this planet will have been turned to stone. But with hundreds, if not thousands of species currently…