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Monday, 30 November 2009 15:53 |
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A team of Italian scientists explored this week more than 15 kilometers of a 1,700-hectare land in southern Chihuahua State known for its wide variety of animal and vegetal fossils, where they took preliminary samples and GPS'd sites for future research.
The site has been previously visited by researchers from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), with whom they reached a collaboration agreement to study the fossils and publish results.
The agreement could lead to a 7-year research partnership.
Sets of bones such as humerus, radius, ribs, skulls, vertebrae, phalanxes, claws and tusks of different animals have been found here, which allegedly died more than 70 million years ago.
The area is scattered with petrified trees and is thought to ensconce complete animal remains.
Federico Fanti, a University of Bologna paleontologist, led the Italian expedition, together with researcher Tullio Bernabei and Mexican explorer Carlos Lazcano.
The European scientists will return to the area early next year to continue their investigation.
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Get over stereotypes! There is a couple of things you'd want know about the largest state of Mexico
Chihuahua is developing an aerospace cluster. Our universities are training aerospace engineers and technicians right now.
We are developing micro-electromechanical systems at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez. Many national and international companies with operations in the State are potential beneficiaries of our projects. 
The most important archaeological site of Northern Mexico is located in the State of Chihuahua, at Paquimé
In Juarez, just across from El Paso, Texas, there is a museum with original parts of the great supersonic passenger jet