Racing against time
Argentinian palaeontologist and geologist Teresa Manera de Bianco is struggling to save a unique collection of animal footprints made 12,000 years ago. The three-kilometre-long site is now part of the Atlantic coastline near Manera’s home, but 12,000 years ago it was an inland pond teeming with birds and mammals. Covered for thousands of years by sediment, the site is today under threat from rising sea levels and thousands of tourists.
"If it weren't for the Rolex Award, there would be nothing left at Pehuen Co.”
Confronting technical challenges and government bureaucracy. Manera is racing against time to preserve the footprints in latex casts that will provide scientists with important clues about the life of animals that once roamed the pampas.
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In Darwin’s footsteps
Palaeontologist Teresa Manera examines footprints in fossilized sediment on Argentina’s Atlantic coast.
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Dr Teresa Manera de Bianco
Rosales 456
8109 Punta Alta
Provincia de Buenos Aires
Argentina
