Parque National Tierra del Fuego
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As luck would have it, no great war took place. And the southern tip of America remained intact. On the map, however, Cape Horn looks as though something had attempted to take a big bite out of it – a gigantic, insatiably hungry dinosaur from outer space perhaps. The cavities in the creature's teeth had created great pits in the land and its saliva had filled the lakes, canals and fiords.
That also explained the strange adenoids on the trees – they were the result of a virus that had earlier depopulated the native planet of the dinosaurs. The Galaktosaurus santollaphagus was the last of its type – after its unsuccessful attempt to bite off a slice of Patagonia, it succumbed to a cosmic form of nutritional oedema.