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Melting Glacier Exposes Ichthyosaur Fossils

Retreat of Patagonia’s Tyndall Glacier continues to uncover a prehistoric graveyard of marine reptiles.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photograph by Alejandra Zuñiga/Servicio Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published June 3, 2022
Data acquired January 17, 2022

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph