Chubut Province

So I was finding out more about how their language is being preserved.

It's in the Chubut, isn't it? The northern end of Patagonia.

And it's very different.

Yes.

I heard messages like these, too.

From LU20 Radio Chubut, the largest radio station in the Patagonian province of the same name, I heard, Inocencio Belial is advised that his brother Baldobino is sick and hospitalized in General Roca, a 12-hour drive away.

A number was provided if he would like to communicate with his niece Malvina.

I began to recognize certain names that were regularly mentioned.

Gaston was admitted to a hospital and underwent a successful appendectomy.

Afterward, through the radio, Arteaga and Vasquez assured the rest of their family that all had gone well.

Karina Lopez, a host at LU20 Radio Chubut, has been the voice of her station's morning shift at Mensajero Rural for nearly 20 years.

She understands the message's importance from both sides of the broadcast.

So we're seeing – I mean, so that's, I think, also really cool, too, because it's a reflection of the land, right, and of the place and of the people and also those trends as they change.

I think that we're going to see, with things getting hotter, you know, down in Trevelin in Chubut, there are some of my favorite wines come from down there.

They're like the Vinidos Maus Australes del Mundo.

We love a superlative in Argentina, right? But I think, you know, the – Those colder regions are actually going to be really important because hopefully they stay cold.

Writing for The New Yorker in English, journalist Jordan Salama explores the remote lifestyle of Patagonian sheep ranchers in an essay titled The First Social Network.

Salama profiles lonely gauchos in Chubut province who depend entirely on on AM radio broadcasts to receive news from family, track missing livestock, and send medical alerts across hundreds of miles of empty step.

To read the full piece, check out the link in the show notes.

And to wrap up this week with a calendar reminder.

No. Let's get on with this now.

Welsh is spoken in Chubut Province in the Patagonian region of southern Argentina.

There you go.

There you go.

These are from the late Cretaceous in Patagonia, Argentina, found in the Bajo Barreal Formation.

They're in Chubut Province.

The fossils found include vertebrae, parts of the hips, parts of the hand, parts of the leg and feet.

Both have large first fingers on their hands and other features that make them seem like they're megaraptorans, and they're likely at least seven meters long and weighed at least one metric ton.

Mm-hmm.

I'm gonna start with the possible megaraptor, keeping with our theme of Megaraptora, Anisosaurus.

It was an avetheropod dinosaur that lived in the Lake Cretaceous in what is now Chubut Province in Argentina.

So in other words, it's in the group that's closest to birds or close-ish to birds, maybe I should say.