Villa Epecuen: The Town That Was Submerged For 25 Years The landscape has the permanent look of winter. Leafless trees jag skywards while shimmering white dust covers the ground. The streets are deserted; the only sound is the breeze. Welcome to Epecuen, Argentina’s ghost town, with a population of just one. Located 340 miles south-west … Continue reading Villa Epecuen: The Town That Was Submerged For 25 Years →

Argentinian farmer Discovered a prehistoric giant Armadillo shell The resting place of ancient armadillos that roamed the earth some 20,000 years ago has been discovered in Argentina. A farmer stumbled upon the graveyard containing fossilized shells of four massive Glyptodonts, with the largest being the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. The remains were discovered in … Continue reading Argentinian farmer discovered a prehistoric giant armadillo shell →

Rancher finds the strange rock on his farm, it was not what he had in mind at all A rancher came across an old bone sticking out of his desert property near La Flecha in the Patagonia region of Argentina four years ago. With the recent news of exciting dinosaur finds in that country in … Continue reading Rancher finds the strange rock on his farm, it was not what he had in mind at all →

A Titanosaur in Ecuador? New Dinosaur Discovered! Ecuador has found the fossils of a previously unknown titanosaurus. The medium to small-sized dinosaur lived 85 million years ago, during the Upper Cretaceous period. The remains have been found in the province of Loja at the southern end of the country. It is the first time in … Continue reading The first dinosaur remains from the Cretaceous of Ecuador →

The mummified corpse of ‘magical’ baby boy who died 50 years ago attracts thousands of pilgrims There are thousands of pilgrims hundreds of miles traveling to visit the tiny body of Miguel Ángel Gaitán, Spanish for “Miracle Child”. “El Angelito Milagroso.” Fifteen days prior to his first birthday in 1967, Miguel died of meningitis. Seven years … Continue reading The mummified corpse of ‘magical’ baby boy who died 50 years ago attracts thousands of pilgrims →