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Tango01 | 18 Dec 2014 9:22 p.m. PST |
"Investigators from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont and the University of Zaragoza have dug up the neck of a Sauropod more than five meters long. The structure made to remove the fossil intact, that the paleontologists named ‘Momia", weighed more than 2,500 kilos The operation to excavate and transport Momia took almost five hours to complete and required the use of a powerful backhoe and the creation of a road in order to get to the location where the fossil was buried, and afterwards transport it to the town of Isona and Conca. Access to the Oracu-1 Site is complicated, and for the past few years the excavation operations had been preparing the way for when the moment came to move the fossil…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
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