fossils

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Chicago (USA) has discovered, from fossil remains found in the Sahara desert, that Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, the largest predator of the Cretaceous, also knew how to swim, becoming the only one known swimming dinosaur so far.

A small team of scientists from several countries has identified the oldest known example of a type of mite fossil. The work, which has been published in the journal Biology Letters, exposes how they obtained the piece of amber with an ant trapped inside to which a mite was attached.

An American-Argentine team of scientists has discovered in Argentine Patagonia the fossil remains of a dinosaur that lived 77 million years ago in the southern tip of South America and that weighed as much as a dozen African elephants. The finding has been published in the journal Scientific Reports.

'Haootia quadriformis' is the name with which paleontologists baptized a new species whose fossil remains have been found in Newfoundland (Canada).

A team of researchers has announced the discovery of tens of thousands of prehistoric tools at the Kathu archaeological site in South Africa.

Anthropologist and geologist Brooke Crowley is convinced that mammoths and mastodons were more sedentary animals than is believed.

The analysis of the calcified dental plaque of our ancestors shows that some of them knew the properties of some plants.

A team of paleontologists from the Center for Insect Science at the University of Arizona (USA) has discovered the fossilized remains of the brain of one of the earliest known predators. The specimen found, would have lived 520 million years ago in the lower Cambrian period. The results of the study have been published in the journal Nature.