An international team of paleontologists has discovered the first extinct giant penguin with remains of scales and feathers. This 36-million-year-old fossil shows that the plumage was reddish-brown and gray, unlike the "tux" worn by penguins today.
Concavenator corcovatus is a new carnivorous dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous (about 125 million years ago) found at the Las Hoyas site in Cuenca. Studied by researchers from the UNED and the UAM, the specimen is the most complete articulated dinosaur skeleton in the Iberian Peninsula, and one of the best preserved in Europe.
Scientists at Princeton University found primitive sponge fossils about a centimeter long in rocks in southern Australia. Analysis reveals that the fossilized specimen lived in the oceans 650 million years ago, making it the oldest animal on Earth.
Early hominids such as the famous Australopithecus Lucy used tools to cut meat and separate it from bones for more than three million years, according to the discovery of two bone fossils with marks made by a sharp instrument.
A fossil of an ancient species of crocodile with mammalian dental features has been discovered in the Rukwa cleavage of Tanzania (Africa). Their finding "has changed the image of animal life 100 million years ago in present-day sub-Saharan Africa," according to a study published this week in the journal Nature.
In an excavation in eastern Timor, a team of archaeologists has unearthed the bones of the largest rat that has ever lived, weighing more than 6 kilograms. The excavations have uncovered 13 species of rodents, 11 of them new to science.
A group of paleontologists has discovered a cave with dozens of 15-million-year-old prehistoric marsupial fossils on the Australian continent. The primitive animals bear a striking resemblance to today's kangaroos and koalas.
Today the Burgos Museum of Human Evolution is inaugurated in Burgos, an initiative whose objective is to disseminate knowledge of the evolution of our species based on archaeological findings and scientific studies carried out in the Sierra de Atapuerca sites. declared a World Heritage Site.
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.
