Villa Epecuen: The Town That Was Submerged For 25 Years
Villa Epecuen: The Town That Was Submerged For 25 Years The landscape has the permanent look of winter. Leafless trees jag skywards while shimmering white dust covers the ground. The streets are deserted; the only sound is the breeze. Welcome to Epecuen, Argentina’s ghost town, with a population of just one. Located 340 miles south-west …
Argentinian farmer discovered a prehistoric giant armadillo shell
Argentinian farmer Discovered a prehistoric giant Armadillo shell The resting place of ancient armadillos that roamed the earth some 20,000 years ago has been discovered in Argentina. A farmer stumbled upon the graveyard containing fossilized shells of four mᴀssive Glyptodonts, with the largest being the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. The remains were discovered in …
Rancher finds the strange rock on his farm, it was not what he had in mind at all
Rancher finds the strange rock on his farm, it was not what he had in mind at all A rancher came across an old bone sticking out of his desert property near La Flecha in the Patagonia region of Argentina four years ago. With the recent news of exciting dinosaur finds in that country in …
The first dinosaur remains from the Cretaceous of Ecuador
A тιтanosaur in Ecuador? New Dinosaur Discovered! Ecuador has found the fossils of a previously unknown тιтanosaurus. The medium to small-sized dinosaur lived 85 million years ago, during the Upper Cretaceous period. The remains have been found in the province of Loja at the southern end of the country. It is the first time in …
The mummified corpse of ‘magical’ baby boy who died 50 years ago attracts thousands of pilgrims
The mummified corpse of ‘magical’ baby boy who died 50 years ago attracts thousands of pilgrims There are thousands of pilgrims hundreds of miles traveling to visit the tiny body of Miguel Ángel Gaitán, Spanish for “Miracle Child”. “El Angelito Milagroso.” Fifteen days prior to his first birthday in 1967, Miguel died of meningitis. Seven years …
Meet The Megatherium: The Adorable 13-Foot Sloth That Ruled The Prehistoric Amazon
Meet The Megatherium: The Adorable 13-Foot Sloth That Ruled The Prehistoric Amazon The year is 9,000 B.C. Humongous cave bears, saber-toothed tigers, and mᴀssive-antlered Irish elk roam the grᴀsslands and forests of South America, but the biggest of all is the Megatherium, an elephant-sized ground sloth. The Megatherium was one of the largest ground mammals …