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Venezuelan oil survey digs up prehistoric animals

Ana Komnenic | September 05, 2013 | 5:27 pm Energy Europe Latin America 

While surveying Venezuelan soil, oil companies unintentionally discovered a buried treasure of a different kind: Gigantic animal fossils as old as 370 million years. The findings include a Volskwagen-sized armadillo, a bus-sized crocodile, a saber-tooth tiger, a featherless, iguana-like chicken,...

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