Tag: fossils
Paleontology: A T-Rex for the living room
Dinosaur bones belong in a museum? Not necessarily in the USA: In New York, a tyrannosaurus skull is to be auctioned off at Sotheby’s for 20 million dollars. This puts…
When dinosaurs fight – knowledge
It is obvious that ankylosaurs were able to defend themselves: the animals had a spiky shell and a long tail with a club-like tip, which not least could scare off…
Scholz at the climate conference: off for fossils “without ifs and buts”
Status: 11/07/2022 7:48 p.m In Sharm El-Sheikh, Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned of a “renaissance” in oil, gas and coal. At the same time, he promised more money for the protection…
Anthropology: The first walkers
They were still good climbers, but most of them were already walking: Pre-humans walked upright on two legs as early as seven million years ago. source site
The mini monster is not our ancestor – knowledge
A spiky creature reminiscent of a mini-monster with a large mouth and no anus does not belong to the earliest human ancestors, contrary to what was thought. This is what…
Cave in France: Did Homo Sapiens come to Europe 10,000 years earlier? – Knowledge
According to a study, modern humans lived in Europe around 54,000 years ago – around 10,000 years earlier than previously thought. At least that’s the conclusion drawn by an international…
In the Drôme, fossils and tools reveal that Homo sapiens arrived in Europe much earlier than we thought
Modern humans, Homo sapiens, ventured into European Neanderthal territory much earlier than reported so far, as evidenced by fossils and tools from Mandrin Cave, on the Rhone River, in France,…
Ten-meter-long ichthyosaur fossil discovered in Great Britain – knowledge
It’s ten meters long, and the skull alone weighs a ton – that’s the size of an ichthyosaur fossil that British researchers found in a reservoir in the East Midlands.…
Ten-meter-long ichthyosaur fossil discovered in Great Britain – knowledge
It is ten meters long and the skull alone weighs a ton – these are the dimensions of an ichthyosaur fossil that British researchers found in a reservoir in the…
Dinosaurs: Rare Fossil Controversy Enters Next Round – Knowledge
In December 2020, a 110-million-year-old dinosaur from Brazil stunned scientists with its fur-like hairs and spear-like feathers that sprout from its shoulders. But Ubirajara jubatus, as the scientists called the…