Scientists from Argentina and the United States have discovered in Peru the oldest primate fossil in the American continent known to date, which has been dated at 35 million years.
Until now, the disappearance of Homo neanderthalensis in Europe had been dated around 40,000 years ago. However, a new study carried out by the UDI of Prehistory, Archeology and Ancient History of the University of La Laguna (Spain) dates its disappearance in the Iberian Peninsula before that date: around 45,000 years. The research has been published in the Journal of Human Evolution.
We review, month by month, all the astronomical events that we can enjoy in 2015, the International Year of Light: meteor showers, eclipses, supermoons ...
A team of scientists from Brown University (USA) has discovered, thanks to a new analysis of a rock found a few years ago in the desert of Morocco, that "Black Beauty" or "Black Beauty", as it is known This rock was once part of the great plains of Martian crust that are exhibited among the sand and that are precisely those that form a large part of the soil of our neighboring planet Mars. In fact, as scientists explain to the journal Icarus, "most of the rocks on the surface of Mars probably look a lot like Black Beauty: dark, confusing and beautiful."
An international team of scientists has discovered the largest absence of evolution ever seen. It is a type of microorganism that lives in the high seas and that seems to have not evolved over more than 2 billion years. Does this discovery clash with Charles Darwin's theory of evolution?
Qijianglong ("the dragon of Qijiang" in Chinese) lived 160 million years ago, during the late Jurassic. And as a good sauropod, it had a huge neck, although even larger than what paleontologists are used to seeing.
A new fossil found in the Manot cave, north of Israel, specifically the upper part of a skull, has shown that both Neanderthals (who became extinct about 28,000 years ago) and sapiens coexisted as nomadic hunters, possibly for millennia. Although the fossil does not reveal conclusive data, it does reveal this cross between the two species and that even the discovered skull could belong to Sapiens-Neanderthal descent. The work has been published in the journal Nature.
A team of scientists led by the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) has discovered a solar system with five planets very similar in size to that of Earth, which, according to astroeismological calculations, dates back to the beginning of the galaxy. It is the oldest known solar system in the Milky Way.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
