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Juan Forero

Created: March 02, 2009

Published: March 04, 2009
Cerrejon Coal Mine, Colombia
SLUG: Colombia INPUTDATE: 2009-03-02 15:38:26.920 CREDIT: Juan Forero/STAFF/TWP Cerrejon Coal Mine, , Colombia Carlos Jaramillo is the lead paleontologist of a Smithsonian-funded team that has been digging for fossils in the open-pit Cerrejon coal mine of northern Colombia. Among their discoveries is that a titanic snake, as long as a school bus, once ruled northern South America. Here he holds up a fossil, recently extracted from the shale. Sent by: Juan Forero Photo Editor:

by: Juan Forero TWP