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discovered dinosaur fossils in China 150 million years

A set of dinosaur fossils in good condition was discovered recently in suburban Qijiang County in Chongqing Municipality. The fossil assemblage has been preliminarily identified by archaeologists as the remains of a sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Jurassic Period 150 million years ago. According to sources, the sauropod dinosaur was the largest land animals during the Jurassic period.

The site of the excavation of fossils were found in Group No 1 of Heba village, in the street gunan, Qijiang district, also known as the "Edge of the Earth." Archaeologists began excavating the fossils on November 29, after which came one after another surprises. According to some sources, Qijiang district is rich in geological resources and has the largest concentration of dinosaur remains in southwest China, including species not found in other places. Currently, the District of Qijiang is requesting the establishment of "Forest of Chongqing on Stony Qijiang - National Geological Park Dinosaur Footprints."

Source: People Online

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snuff fossil leaves reveal that in Peru there was 2.5 million years ago

An expedition in Peru's northern jungle discovered a fossilized leaves compact mass of snuff, in an area that corresponds geologically to the Pleistocene, which reveal that plant existed in Peru last 2.5 million years.

The director of the Paleontological Museum Hönningen Meyer, Klaus Hönningen and paleobotany expert Luis Cabrera found the layer of the Pleistocene era on Monday in the Maranon Basin, the Amazon region, with fossilized leaves concretions snuff , according to a statement sent Efe.

"This finding made in the high jungle of northern Peru to determine, first, that the origin of the plant dates back to the Pleistocene and confirm that snuff is a native of northern Peru," said the source.

botanical experts had determined that the source of the snuff was placed in the Andean region of Peru and Ecuador, because the findings of the first crops that were made between 5,000 and 3,000 years before our era, the source added.

addition to being smoked, the snuff is snorted, chewed, ate, drank, was smeared on the body, was used in eye drops and enemas were used by settlers before colonization (1492) in South America, explained the museum.

was also used in rituals warriors before the fight, spread on fields before planting, offered to the gods, poured on women before intercourse and used as a narcotic.

The said museum has several collections of animal and plant fossils will be exhibited from next year in a theme park in the northern city of Chiclayo.

Among the most important parts of future fossil museum contains a 18-meter shark named Megalodon long, known as a cat and a saber-toothed whale brain, including others.

Source: EPA.

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In Colombia, Huila, are fossils of prehistoric animals. Found

At a major event has become the town of Villavieja the discovery of two fossils. This is the remains of a land that lived glyptodonts Huila more than 10 million years and a giant tortoise that size could not be extracted in its entirety. Gladis

Vanegas, coordinator of the paleontology museum of this town north of Huila, he told Caracol Radio that the glyptodonts was an armadillo-like animal that reached four meters by three meters long. His remains were found by residents of the village Villavieja victory.

Ingeominas The commission, composed of geologists, paleontologists and fossil experts, the population is still investigating and removing the remains of a giant turtle that was found in the Desert Tatacoa.

recall that in the Desert Tatacoa more than 700 fossils have been found at different times and which today can be seen at the Museum of Palaeontology of Huila.

original title "In Villavieja, Huila, are fossils of prehistoric animals"

Source: caracol.com.co