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These Patagonia cave paintings are 8,200 years old

March 8, 2024413 Views

Found in a rock shelter, 895 paintings are earliest in South America Archaeologists have discovered the earliest dated cave paintings in South America in Argentine Patagonia, dating back 8,200 years. The 895 paintings were found by Argentine and Chilean archaeologists in the Huenul 1 cave, a 630 square meter rock shelter located in the province of Neuquen, some 1,100 kilometers (684 miles) southwest of the capital Buenos Aires. A general view of the oldest dated cave art in South America, with nearly 8,200 years old, at the Huenul 1 cave, in Neuquen, Argentina March 3, 2024. REUTERS/Miguel Lo Bianco "We were able to date four black peniform patterns that were drawn in charcoal. These proved to be the earliest direct dating of cave paintings in South America," said Dr. Guadalup...

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Scientists discover duck-billed dinosaur roamed Chile 72 million years ago

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June 17, 2023942 Views

A duck-billed herbivorous dinosaur roamed the ancient and remote river plains of Patagonia in southern Chile some 72 million years ago, a new study revealed on Friday. Scientists have dubbed the dinosaur Gonkoken nanoi and say it weighed up to a metric ton and could grow to 4 meters (13.12 feet) in length according to the study published in Science Advances. A paleontologist checks fossilized bones of the 'Gonkoken nanoi', a newly identified duck-billed dinosaur, that inhabited the Chilean Patagonian area, at El valle del rio de las Chinas, near Torres del Paine, Magallanes and Antarctic region, Chile, in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters on June 15, 2023. Universidad de Chile/ Handout via REUTERS In 2013, an expedition led by the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH) ...

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Mountain glacier in Chile’s Patagonia collapses amid high temperatures

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September 14, 2022727 Views

Higher temperatures and rainfall that weaken ice walls caused part of a hanging glacier to break off at a national park in Chile's Patagonia region in an event captured on video by tourists. In a video that went viral Monday, a glacier that sits atop a mountain about 200 meters (656 feet) high rumbled and broke off at Queulat National Park, located more than 1,200 kilometers (746 miles) south of Chile's capital. Detachments between masses of ice are normal, says University of Santiago climate scientist Raul Cordero, but he noted that the frequency of these events is troubling. "Because this type of event is triggered by heat waves or by intense liquid precipitation events and both things are also happening more and more frequently throughout the planet, not only in Chile," Corder...

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Albania enlists Patagonia to make wild Vjosa River a park

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June 14, 2022804 Views

Albanian officials on Monday declared the Vjosa River and its tributaries a future national park, a move aimed at preserving what they called one of the last wild rivers in Europe. The Albanian Ministry of Tourism and Environment signed an agreement with the California-based Patagonia environmental organization to draft an “integrated and sustainable plan” for the new park. FILE - People raft on the Vjosa River near Permet, Albania, June 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) “This is an opportunity to protect one of Europe’s rivers, really one of the crown jewel rivers of Europe,” Ryan Gellert of Patagonia told The Associated Press. Patagonia, along with other environmental groups EcoAlbania, Riverwatch and EuroNatur, will help organize and fund a panel of international and l...

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Intact, pregnant ichthyosaur fossil recovered from Patagonian glacier in Chile

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May 14, 2022791 Views

Chilean scientists successfully recovered one of the world's most complete ichthyosaur fossils with intact embryos from the Tyndall Glacier in Chile's Patagonia region. The preserved and pregnant ancient marine reptile was dubbed "Fiona" by scientists. The 4-meter-long fossil will help scientists study embryonic development in ichtyosaurs, which roamed the seas between 90 and 250 million years ago. Paleontologists of the GAIA Antarctic Research Center of the University of Magallanes recover the first fossil of a four-meter Ichthyosaur at Tyndall Glacier area in the Chilean Patagonia, Magallanes, Chile April 16, 2022. GAIA Antarctic Research Center University of Magallanes/Handout via REUTERS The fossil "is the only pregnant ichthyosaur that's been found on the planet from the era...

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Why Patagonia is rising as glaciers melt!

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February 28, 20221352 Views

Seismic study reveals how newly unburdened earth rebounds and rises The icefields that stretch for hundreds of miles atop the Andes mountain range in Chile and Argentina are melting at some of the fastest rates on the planet. The ground that was beneath this ice is also shifting and rising as these glaciers disappear. Geologists have discovered a link between recent ice mass loss, rapid rock uplift and a gap between tectonic plates that underlie Patagonia. Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis, led by seismologist Douglas Wiens, the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences, recently completed one of the first seismic studies of the Patagonian Andes. In a new publication in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, they describe and map out local...