Oil Workers Discover Saber-Toothed Fossils
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 13:49
in Paleontology & Archaeology
An ancient tar pit exposed when Venezuelan oil workers laid a pipeline has yielded a rich trove of fossils, including a type of saber-toothed cat that paleontologists had never found before in South America.
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