You Wouldn't Believe What Scientists Found Frozen in Glaciers and Lakes

A Cretaceous-Era Graveyard

A Chilean glacier houses a collection of some of the oldest creatures to even have a molecule of carbon still intact from over 3 million years ago. Scientists have found 46 species of lizard-fish that have no name or direct relatives via DNA. The largest creature that was recorded in the glacier was 16 feet long.

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