10,000 fossil remains
May 2007
The works on the Madrid-Levante AVE (high speed train) have come up against something exceptional:
a huge deposit that accumulates Upper Cretaceous remains
The excavation campaign in the Lo Hueco area culminated with the collection of 10,000 fossil remains. This area extended over one of the largest islands of an archipelago located off the southeastern coast of Ibero-America, which was dominated by dinosaurs, until now, almost unknown. More than a decade after the excavations, the abundance of remains of titanosaur specimens, crocodiles and turtles reveals the ecosystem and the history of life in southern Europe at the end of the dinosaur era.
Photography: Nuno Perestrelo
Production: Mariano Comino León
Recognized by: Science Photographer of the Year of the Royal Photographic Society