The Ichthyosaur Cemetery in PATAGONIA

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Some 120 million years ago, the ichthyosaurs died at the edge of the Tyndall Glacier.  Now, palaeontologists are getting to the bottom of how such mass mortality in such a confined space came about – looking for clues in the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile

By Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Eberhard Frey and Marcelo Leppe Cartes