٠٠:٠٣:٠٥Manu Guazu, a four-year-old boy from Mar del Plata, discovered a skull of 30,000-year-old giant broad-snouted ground sloth after an afternoon at the beach with his family.
Footage recorded on Friday shows Manu playing at the beach with his mom as well as Fernando Scaglia, a palaeontology technician at the Natural Sciences Museum, working on the skull.
"He always plays to look for dinosaurs; knowing that this area is a paleontological reserve, it is as if he were very, very involved in the search for the rest of the fossils," explained Loli Lanusse, Manu's mother.
While the skull is 55-centimetre-long, Scaglia suggested that it presumably belongs to Glossotherium robustum, the herbivorous species, which is 1.5 meters high and 3.5 meters long, and its mass is estimated between 1,200 and 1,500 kilogrammes. The finding is considered the largest of the genus Glossotherium that is part of the collection of the museum.
According to the local media reports, Manu was granted a title of 'Protector of Paleontological Heritage' for his finding.
It is also reported that the age of the find is estimated to be between 20,000 and 30,000 years, and the remains were recovered in sedimentary deposits of an ancient river bed.
'Like a dream come true' - Four-year-old boy makes history after finding 30,000-year-old giant ground sloth skull in Mar del Plata
Manu Guazu, a four-year-old boy from Mar del Plata, discovered a skull of 30,000-year-old giant broad-snouted ground sloth after an afternoon at the beach with his family.
Footage recorded on Friday shows Manu playing at the beach with his mom as well as Fernando Scaglia, a palaeontology technician at the Natural Sciences Museum, working on the skull.
"He always plays to look for dinosaurs; knowing that this area is a paleontological reserve, it is as if he were very, very involved in the search for the rest of the fossils," explained Loli Lanusse, Manu's mother.
While the skull is 55-centimetre-long, Scaglia suggested that it presumably belongs to Glossotherium robustum, the herbivorous species, which is 1.5 meters high and 3.5 meters long, and its mass is estimated between 1,200 and 1,500 kilogrammes. The finding is considered the largest of the genus Glossotherium that is part of the collection of the museum.
According to the local media reports, Manu was granted a title of 'Protector of Paleontological Heritage' for his finding.
It is also reported that the age of the find is estimated to be between 20,000 and 30,000 years, and the remains were recovered in sedimentary deposits of an ancient river bed.
Manu Guazu, a four-year-old boy from Mar del Plata, discovered a skull of 30,000-year-old giant broad-snouted ground sloth after an afternoon at the beach with his family.
Footage recorded on Friday shows Manu playing at the beach with his mom as well as Fernando Scaglia, a palaeontology technician at the Natural Sciences Museum, working on the skull.
"He always plays to look for dinosaurs; knowing that this area is a paleontological reserve, it is as if he were very, very involved in the search for the rest of the fossils," explained Loli Lanusse, Manu's mother.
While the skull is 55-centimetre-long, Scaglia suggested that it presumably belongs to Glossotherium robustum, the herbivorous species, which is 1.5 meters high and 3.5 meters long, and its mass is estimated between 1,200 and 1,500 kilogrammes. The finding is considered the largest of the genus Glossotherium that is part of the collection of the museum.
According to the local media reports, Manu was granted a title of 'Protector of Paleontological Heritage' for his finding.
It is also reported that the age of the find is estimated to be between 20,000 and 30,000 years, and the remains were recovered in sedimentary deposits of an ancient river bed.