If you have been to El Calafate, you probably associate it with huge ice, wind and landscapes. But the rocks in that area kept another postcard, much warmer, from about 70 million years ago, when there were still dinosaurs and the food chain had more than an unexpected “boss”. A team of paleontologists has described a new species called Kostensuchus atrox from an exceptionally complete fossil found in the Chorrillo Formation. The animal measured…
If you have been to El Calafate, you probably associate it with huge ice, wind and landscapes. But the rocks in that area kept another postcard, much warmer, from about 70 million years ago, when there were still dinosaurs and the food chain had more than an unexpected “boss”. A team of paleontologists has described a new species called Kostensuchus atrox from an exceptionally complete fossil found in the Chorrillo Formation. The animal measured…