The paleontologist Nicholas Longrich has discovered a new species of dinosaur at the Museum of Natural History in New York (USA) with an exuberant heart-shaped structure on its head. And he has named it Mojoceratops peripania.
Paleontologists from the University of Toronto and the Royal Museum of Ontario (ROM), in Canada, have discovered that cephalopods arose 500 million years ago with a carnivorous squid, Nectocaris pteryx, which has been classified for the first time within the family of cephalopods along with octopus, squid, cuttlefish, nautiluses and the now extinct ammonites and belemnites.
The discovery of a 95 million-year-old deposit of amber has allowed an international team of 20 scientists to identify some of the insects and plants that coexisted with dinosaurs in the Cretaceous. Based on the data, the researchers describe today in an article published in the journal PNAS what the ancient tropical forests could be like in present-day Ethiopia at the time of the great reptiles.
DNA analysis of an unusual polar bear (Ursus maritimus) fossil found in Norway confirms that this species separated from the brown bear 150,000 years ago and that it survived an interglacial period warmer than today. The study sheds new data on the origins and evolution of one of the species most threatened today by climate change.
A new member of a peculiar group of dinosaurs, the alvarezsaurids, with long legs and short arms, is 63 million years older than the rest of its "relatives", as published today in the journal Science. Its discoverers claim that it is an important primitive member of the lineage that includes birds and their closest theropod relatives.
A paleontological site found under the Carpetana Metro station, in Madrid, has become an exhibition to introduce travelers to the animal and plant life of the area in the Miocene, the period between 23 and 5 million years behind, with specimens of bear-wolves, giant tortoises, ruminants and a mastodon.
A team of paleontologists has found 220-million-year-old fossils of a feathered, carnivorous, bipedal dinosaur, the remote precursor of Tyrannosaurus rex, suggesting that the dinosaurs arose in South America and then spread around the world.
Researchers from the Catalan Institute of Paleontology have discovered in l'Anoia (Barcelona) fossil remains that belong to a new genus of hominid primate never described until now, which they have named Anoiapithecus brevirostris.
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.
