Argentina puts 65-million-year-old dinosaur replica on displayThe fossil was found in Cretaceous period rocks close to the southern town of El Calafate [Courtesy]Argentine paleontologists unveiled on Wednesday the replica of a 65-million-year-old skeleton of a plesiosaur marine reptile found in a Patagonian lake in 2009. The fossil is of a marine reptile found in Cretaceous period rocks close to the southern town of El Calafate, 2,800 kilometers (1,700 miles) from Buenos Aires. The remains of this plesiosaur are the most complete found in Argentina and were discovered in rocks submerged in Lake Argentino at the foot of the Andes mountains. Four tons of rocks had to be removed to unearth the fossil remains, found just 500 meters (1,640 feet) from an international airport. Plesiosaurs were huge marine reptiles that lived in seas throughout the entire planet inhabited the entire planet, with long necks, tiny heads and sharp teeth.

Source: Standard Digital December 20, 2018 07:49 UTC