Laguna de Huanco (IMAGE)

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Laguna de Huanco

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Laguna del Hunco, shown here, and other fossil sites in Patagonia, Argentina preserve hundreds of plant species that lived on the Gondwanan supercontinent. Many of these fossils are considerably older than their corresponding molecular-clock estimates.

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Peter Wilf

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