Feb 24, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of titanosaur has been identified from the fossilized remains found in the Hațeg Basin in Transylvania, western Romania. An artist’s...

Jan 24, 2025 by News Staff

Paleoanthropologists have found 1.95-million-year-old cut-marked bones that appear to have been made by early hominins using stone tools at the site of...

Dec 2, 2024 by Sergio Prostak

Over its history, archaeology has seen a varied set of uses made of philosophy and philosophical concepts. A persistent critique has been that too often...

Jul 2, 2024 by Sergio Prostak

The Trypillia culture flourished in western/central Ukraine, Moldova and eastern Romania for over two millennia from the end of the Neolithic to the Early...

Aug 30, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

A family of medium-sized iguanodontian dinosaurs called the Rhabdodontidae was one of the most important dinosaur groups inhabiting the ancient European...

Nov 24, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of rhabdodontid ornithopod dinosaur has been identified from the fossilized skull bones found in the Haţeg Basin in western Romania. Inhabitants...

Nov 24, 2022 by News Staff

In 1713, a collection of eight gold coins of five different design types, one of which featured the unknown Roman emperor Sponsian, was found in Transylvania,...

Jan 12, 2022 by News Staff

The nearly complete humerus — or upper arm bone — of a pangolin from the paleontological site of Grăunceanu in Romania definitively demonstrates...

May 26, 2020 by Natali Anderson

An isotopic analysis of fossil collagen from the bones collected in three Romanian caves indicates that the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus), an extinct species...

Feb 18, 2020 by News Staff

Using a novel technique called clumped isotope paleothermometry, an international team of paleontologists analyzed eggshell fossils representing three...

Feb 17, 2017 by News Staff

Hatzegopteryx, a flying reptile with a 10-m wingspan and a mass of 220 kg, was the dominant predator in what is now Romania between 72-66 million years...

Jul 5, 2016 by News Staff

The first-ever record of ameloblastoma — a rare, non-cancerous tumor that develops most often in the jaw near the molars – found in a fossil...

Jun 23, 2015 by News Staff

Genetic analysis of the mandible of an anatomically modern Homo sapiens who lived in what is now Romania between 42,000 and 37,000 years ago reveals that...