Apr 10, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

100M year old dinosaur tracks reported in the journal Chinese Science Bulletin suggest that some dinosaurs were strong swimmers. Carnivorous two-legged...

Apr 9, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that more than 1,000 bird species became extinct on Pacific islands...

Mar 22, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

University of Southampton paleontologists have described a completely new genus and species of small prehistoric flying reptile from a fossil discovered...

Mar 12, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the Australian National University have described a new species of ancient fish, after unearthing the largest fossilized lobe-finned...

Mar 6, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A group of paleontologists has announced the discovery of fossilized remains of an extinct giant camel that lived in what is now Canada about 3.5 million...

Mar 5, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to U.S. paleontologists, the discovery of 19 million year old crocodilian fossils in Panama sheds new light on the history of interchange and...

Mar 4, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, the University of Tennessee and North Carolina State University, have found the...

Feb 28, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists has solved some of the mysteries surrounding large spiral fossils of an ancient fish called Helicoprion. Outdated...

Feb 27, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new research by an international team of archaeologists provides convincing evidence that the earliest civilization of South America relied heavily on...

Feb 20, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority has found remains of an industrial installation dating back to the Byzantine period (600...

Feb 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Strontium isotope data from the Danube Gorges in the north-central Balkan show Europe’s first farmers were immigrants. “One of the big questions...

Feb 13, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A study by Prof Paul Else of the University of Wollongong, Australia, suggests dinosaurs may have produced a kind of milk for their offspring. “But...

Feb 12, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of scientists has used a new automated tool to reconstruct protolanguages – ancient tongues from which modern languages evolved. This...

Feb 8, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A small, insect-eating animal was the common ancestor of placental mammals, an international team of researchers has reported in the journal Science (full...

Feb 5, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new research led by Spanish scientists casts doubt on the widely accepted theory that the last Neanderthals persisted in southern Iberia, Spain, at the...

Feb 5, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists from Romania, the United Kingdom and Brazil has described a new species of extinct flying reptile from the time of the dinosaurs. This...

Feb 1, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Tapeworm eggs found in 270-million-year-old fossilized shark feces provide the earliest known evidence of intestinal parasites in vertebrates. Left: a...

Jan 25, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologist Derek Larson of the Royal Ontario Museum, who spent six years analyzing fossilized dinosaur teeth, has identified more than 20 species of...

Jan 25, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a team of paleontologists from Europe and China, the discovery of a new bird-like dinosaur from the Jurassic period challenges widely accepted...

Jan 17, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr Barry Molloy, an archaeologist at the University of Sheffield, the United Kingdom, has discovered that the Minoan civilization had strong martial traditions,...