For information on Lago Barreales Paleontological Center and Patagonia's Dinosaur Route, see www.proyectodino.com.ar.

BBC: The dinosaur route of northwest Patagonia

"It was food for everyone else, " says Cliff Miles, CEO of Western Paleontological Laboratories in the Lehi, Utah.

FORBES: On The Block

Plaza Huincul is a gloomy oil town with a reputation for political protest, but its paleontological museum exhibits the partial skeleton of the biggest dinosaur ever to thunder across Earth.

BBC: The dinosaur route of northwest Patagonia

"The rediscovery of the original Bahariya Oasis paleontological site has allowed a new glimpse into the age of dinosaurs in northern Africa, " says Thomas Holtz of the University of Maryland.

BBC: Josh Smith/Univ of Pennsylvania

On the lake's northern shore, a fossil of a giant femur bone, bigger than an adult man, leans against a rock-face and signals your arrival at the Lago Barreales Paleontological Center.

BBC: The dinosaur route of northwest Patagonia

Sponsors participate at every stage of the paleontological process, side-by-side with a site scientist: from the use of hammer and chisel to free fossils from hard rock, to the moulding of bone replicas for display at the on-site laboratory.

BBC: The dinosaur route of northwest Patagonia

Paleontological evidence shows that, compared with hunter-gatherers, early farmers had more anemia and vitamin deficiencies, died younger, had worse teeth, were more prone to spinal deformity, and caught more infectious diseases, as a result of living close to other humans and to livestock.

NEWYORKER: The Sanctuary

By that stage, he warns, runaway global warming would have become an unstoppable "deadly game of dominoes", ultimately leading to further rises that, based on studies of previous cases of similar climate change in the earth's paleontological history, would spell the near-certain extinction of almost all life on the planet.

CNN: Six degrees of devastation