Genuine Vaca Muerta Meteorite in Glass Dome

Genuine Vaca Muerta Meteorite in Glass DomeOwn a piece from out of this world. The Vaca Muerta meteorite fell over the Atacama Desert of Chile, one of the driest places on Earth a landscape so barren it preserved these cosmic fragments for thousands of years until their discovery. Holding this piece means holding something that formed at the very birth of our solar system. You are not just looking at a rock you are looking at a frozen moment in cosmic history. Classified as a Mesosiderite,

megalodon) developed fully serrated teeth and lost the lateral cusps entirely

Collecting Environment

The Sikhote-Alin fall produced two very different kinds of meteorites

indicating a predatory lifestyle

powerful reptile that ruled the shallow Cretaceous seas alongside giants like Mosasaurus and Tylosaurus

not necessarily different species

and the two lateral cusps are complete and well defined

SPANISH PYRITE IS FAMOUS FOR ITS CUBIC SHAPE

preying on large marine mammals like whales

rhinoceroses

Triceratops fossils are still far less common than marine shark teeth or many small

which were teeming with marine life