| Gustavo Lara, Director of Culture of the town of Roque Perez, holds a fossil bone of a megatherium, a kind of large ground sloth, at an excavation site on the outskirts of Roque Perez, some 135 km (84 miles) south of Buenos Aires, May 6, 2009. Fossil bones of nine glossopteris, a glyptodont, the nearly complete skeleton of a megatherium and a head of a stegomastodon dated from the Pleistocene, the epoch from 1.8 million to 10000 years ago, were found by paleontologists in the sediments of the Salado River due to a drought that has been affecting the area for months, local media reported. [Xinhua/Reuters] |
