fossils

Paleontologists from the University of Florida and the University of South Georgia (USA) have discovered in Panama a set of well-preserved fossils belonging to two crocodiles and a hippo-like mammal unknown until now to science. According to the 'Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology', the three species lived in Central America during the Miocene, approximately 20 million years ago, that is, before the formation of the Isthmus of Panama, when the continents of North America and South America they were separated by the ocean.

To calculate the height of a hominid it is not necessary to have it in front of it. Until now, scientists used to measure long bones like the femur, and from there they made estimates. A team of researchers, including Spanish scientists, has shown that it is also possible to find out from foot bones.

Spanish and American researchers have discovered a new species of mygalomorphic spider, a relative of today's tarantulas, which lived in northern Italy about 215 million years ago, when the first dinosaurs inhabited this area. They have named it Friularachne rigoi, and it is one of the few spiders known from the Triassic in the world.

Paleontologists from Dinópolis discover another giant dinosaur in Riodeva (Teruel), where in 2003 the largest dinosaur in Europe was found: Turiasaurus. A femur almost two meters in length, the bone m

A team of American paleontologists has discovered a new species of dinosaur that they have named Abydosaurus mcintoshi.

The Museum of Human Evolution will focus its attention on explaining to the visitor the importance and meanings that excavations have for the knowledge of our evolution, in a project that will interrelate

1.9 million years ago Australopithecus sediba lived in Africa, a hominid that was already capable of making tools and that walks like a modern human. So were his bones.

American researchers have described the oldest dinosaur fossils. The remains of the new Nyasasaurus parringtoni date from the Middle Triassic, and are estimated to be 10 to 15 million years older than any other known dinosaur remnant. "If it is not the first dinosaur, at least it is the closest relative to it that we have found," explains Sterling Nesbitt.