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Madagascar's Buried Treasure

机译:马达加斯加的宝藏

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Dinosaur fossils spill from the hills around the tiny village of Berivotra in northwestern Madagascar. The bones are exquisitely preserved, giving the impression that the beasts died within the past few months instead of 75 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. Unfortunately, the thick grass covering much of the terrain tends to thwart the efforts of fossil hunters like us. So at one promising hill, we dug a fire trench and stood back to watch Retsieva, a Berivotra resident, set fire to a small area of waist-high grass. As a dark plume of smoke arose, even the most positive thinkers among us never imagined that this nondescript hillside would become the most important paleontological site ever discovered in Madagascar and one of the most significant found anywhere in the world in recent years.
机译:恐龙化石从马达加斯加西北部小村庄贝里沃特拉附近的山丘上溢出。骨头保存完好,给人的印象是这些野兽在过去的几个月内死亡,而不是在白垩纪晚期的7500万年前死亡。不幸的是,覆盖大部分地区的茂密草丛阻碍了像我们这样的化石猎人的努力。因此,在一个有前途的小山上,我们挖了一条防火沟,站回去观看Berivotra居民Retsieva向一小块腰高草丛放火。随着一团黑烟涌出,甚至连我们当中最积极的思想家都从未想到过,这座难以描述的山坡将成为马达加斯加有史以来最重要的古生物学遗址,也是近年来世界上最重要的古迹之一。

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