Tag Archive for 'Mallorca'

Life reconstruction of the gorgonopsian from Mallorca in a floodplain setting. Image credit: Henry Sutherland Sharpe.

Therapsids Originated in Tropical Rather than Temperate Regions, New Fossil Find Suggests

Dec 17, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of early gorgonopsian therapsid that was part of an ancient summer wet biome of equatorial Pangea. Life reconstruction...

The 5,600-year-old submerged stone bridge in Genovesa Cave, Mallorca, Spain. Image credit: R. Landreth.

5,600-Year-Old Stone Bridge Indicates Early Human Arrival in Spain’s Mallorca

Aug 30, 2024 by News Staff

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient submerged stone bridge in Genovesa Cave on Mallorca, the main island of the Balearic Archipelago and the sixth...

Triassic terrestrial larva Protoanisolarva juarezi. Scale bars - 1 mm in (A), 0.05 mm in (C-E, G), 0.1 mm in (F). Image credit: Peñalver et al., doi: 10.1002/spp2.1472.

Earliest Known Gnat Fossil Sheds Light on Evolutionary History of True Flies

Mar 14, 2023 by News Staff

Protoanisolarva juarezi, a new genus and species described from a 247-million-year-old larva, shares key features with Anisopodidae, a small cosmopolitan...