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PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF FERRAZ ET AL.
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More than seven decades ago, two researchers made extraordinary fossil finds from 260 million years ago in a three-acre patch of southern Brazil. But as the years passed, others could not retrace their location, and the cache that traced a prehistoric wetland was “lost.”
Until now.
Helped by a local resident, government officials, and universities, researchers have found the site, uncovering a fossil bonanza that includes at least six or seven plant species (pictured above), one species of mollusk, and two of fish. Some species might be new. “It’s beyond what I’ve ever seen,” paleontologist Felipe Pinheiro says. “There’s so much there, it would be impossible to collect them all.”
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