Aug 14, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from Japan, Belgium and the United States have identified a new species of the extinct genus Ontocetus from a nearly complete pair of fossilized...

Nov 9, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of paleontologists from the Netherlands, Canada and the United Kingdom has examined the wear marks on the teeth of several species of mosasaurs,...

Nov 7, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists in Belgium have demonstrated that spearthrowers were used for launching projectiles armed with tanged flint points at the Early Upper Paleolithic...

Feb 8, 2023 by Natali Anderson

Lunaemycins are produced by Streptomyces lunaelactis, a species of bacterium that inhabits the moonmilk deposits of La Grotte Des Collemboles in Belgium...

Dec 1, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Janavis finalidens — an extinct bird species that lived 66.7 million years ago and was one of the last toothed birds to ever live — had a mobile,...

Mar 23, 2020 by News Staff

A new species of ancient bird has been identified from a nearly complete, three-dimensionally preserved skull and associated bones found in Belgium. A...

Jun 27, 2019 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has sequenced the nuclear genomes of two Neanderthals who lived in Europe around 120,000 years ago. They found that...

Mar 9, 2017 by News Staff

An analysis of ancient DNA entrapped in Neanderthal dental calculus (calcified dental plaque) has revealed the complexity of Neanderthal behavior, including...

Aug 24, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists from Belgium, Germany, Canada and Japan has taken a step back in time and provided a new insight into the lifestyle...

Mar 15, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Neanderthals lived mainly on mammoth and rhino meat, as well as some plant food, says a team of researchers led by Prof. Hervé Bocherens from the University...

Jan 9, 2014 by News Staff

A newly discovered genus and species of primitive carnivorous animal that lived in what is now Europe roughly 55 million years ago sheds light on the origins...