A group of paleontologists from the University of Oviedo has found in an Asturian site the fossil remains of a one-year-old mammoth that inhabited the Earth about 35,000 years ago.
An American paleontologist has found a fossilized mosquito in whose stomach there were still traces of blood from its latest victim. The blood could be around 46 million years old and, according to experts, it would belong to a bird.
Scientists have discovered in China the fossil remains of what could be the first creature on the planet with a clearly recognizable face. It is Entelognathus primordialis, it lived 419 million years ago, at the end of the Silurian, it measured around 20 centimeters in length and was the first vertebrate with a modern jaw, as the authors explain in Nature.
Analyzing the penis bones of five specimens of the extinct bear Indarctos arctoides found in the Cerro de los Batallones (Madrid), scientists from the Museum of Natural Sciences-CSIC and the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont have come to the conclusion that this species it maintained long copulations and that the females probably mated with several males in the fertile period. The conclusions have been published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Scientists from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, the IEO, have found megalodon (Otodus megaselachus) remains at a depth of 1,000 meters in the Canary Islands. This type of shark is the largest that has existed so far, it populated this water during the Miocene and could reach 20 meters and weigh 100 tons.
A scientist from the Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering at Imperial College London has found an ancient marine ancestor of lobsters and scorpions and named it Kooteninchela deppi in homage to Johnny Deep, his favorite actor, who played Eduardo Scissorhands. And, as the researcher emphasizes, the species has claws that, due to their appearance and movements, are reminiscent of sharp scissors.
Research from 17 South African fossil fragments by scientists from the UK's National Museum of Natural History has shown that approximately 12 million years ago four different species of penguins lived off the coast of Africa.
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