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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

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ice age fossils in Colorado

Specialists show plus some of the fossils discovered in the tank Ziegler

The director of the Museum of Nature and Science Denver, Kirk Johnson, said he found at the foot of a hill in the Rocky Mountains northwest of Aspen.

Hundreds of animals of the Ice Age were discovered last October by archaeologists of Colorado at the foot of a hill in the Rocky Mountains northwest of Aspen.

The director of the Museum of Nature and Science Denver, Kirk Johnson, called for a press conference the discovery as "one of which is done only once in life" and listed all the specimens found.

"This not only completes our understanding of life in the Rocky Mountains during the Ice Age, but also transformed forever into something symbolic for the children of Colorado," said Johnson. Technical

digging to build a dam near the community of Snowmass Village, northwest of Aspen, located on 14th October a mastodon tusk, which caused them to perform other excavations unearthed hundreds of copies.

mastodons were found 10 Americans, four mammoth, two deer of the ice age, four bison and tiger salamander, among others that include iridescent insects such as beetles and snails and crustaceans.

amounts were also identified well-preserved wood, seeds, pine cones and leaves of silver fir, sub-alpine sedges, seeds and other plants.

The preservation of the fossils found in the reservoir was described by archaeologists as exceptional.

At least one of the 15 tusks recovered from the site is still blank after tens of thousands of years, said through a press release Thursday.

Scientists think it's a good chance of recovering well-preserved ancient DNA of some fossils.

Daniel Fisher, a specialist in mastodons at the University of Michigan and a consultant to the excavation Snowmass, said that there are many findings of the ice age to a height which is the site where specimens were found eight thousand 874 meters .

"It has been suggested that height environments may have hosted different communities, or have had a different story of change, but because the fossils are very rare, representing no one has known for sure," said Fisher.

"Now is our chance to see how they are," he said.

The age of the site is also of particular interest to scientists, the museum said.

initial radiocarbon data indicate that the remains on the site have more than 43 thousand 500 years, and geologists estimate that the site could be as old as about 130 thousand years.

Source: milenio.com / Photo: AP.