In the Montagne Noire region, paleontologists have discovered one of the most impressive and varied fossil deposits dating back to the Lower Ordovician, 470 million years ago. Called the Cabrières Biota, the site contains over 400 fossils, including soft tissues such as the digestive system and cuticle, in an amazing state of preservation. The study … Read more
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The Brazilian geological agency on Thursday American time or Friday, November 24 2023 WIB, announced the species dinosaur new, fast animals that lived in the deserts of the early Cretaceous period. The new species, called Farlowichnus rapidus, was a small carnivore about the size of a modern seriema bird, or about 60-90 … Read more
The world’s oldest known burial site turned out not to be built by us Homo sapiens. Deep in an ancient cave in South Africa, paleontologists have discovered a site that holds extraordinary significance. Buried here are a group of ancient relatives with small brains but extraordinary wisdom – Homo naledi. A research team led by … Read more
Tiffany Slater, lead author of the study and postdoctoral researcher in paleobiology at University College Cork in Ireland, points out, “This same beta protein is also present in the feathers of modern birds.” This discovery was very surprising because previously scientists believed that ancient animal fur had a very different protein composition, especially alpha protein … Read more
JAKARTA – Long and commonly known as the largest animal on earth, the blue whale now has competitors after paleontologists managed to uncover ancient animal fossils. Earlier this month, scientists described an ancient whale fossil unearthed in Peru and named Perucetus colossus, which lived about 38-40 million years ago during the Eocene epoch, as a … Read more
Armored Dinosaur Discovered in England, Lived in the Early Cretaceous Jakarta – The search for dinosaur life continues, even though they are extinct. The persistence of researchers has led to the discovery of a new species, the armored dinosaur (Vecripelta barretti), which belongs to the ankylosaurus group. This species was discovered in the Wessex Formation … Read more