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Published online 10 September 2008 | Nature 455, 153-155 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455153a
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Palaeontology: The new mother lode
Palaeontologists in Argentina are exploring a trove of fossils that is rewriting evolutionary history. Rex Dalton reports.
In the shadow of Cerro Cóndor, a 600-metre-high limestone bluff in Patagonia, two young palaeontologists gaze over waves of mountain ridges running west towards the Andes. Diego Pol and Ignacio Escapa, from the Egidio Feruglio Palaeontological Museum in Trelew, Argentina, have spent years trekking the winding gravel trails here in the Chubut River valley, meeting only wandering guanacos, rheas and sheep.
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