Paleontologists have discovered the skeletal remains of an entirely new, yet-to-be-named species of massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur in the Klettgau...
A ream of paleontologists at the University of Zurich reports a chronic case of osteomyelitis (bone tissue infection) in Plateosaurus trossingensis, one...
Mycena crocata is a long-known species of fungus frequently reported from Europe and Japan, which was considered non-luminescent until now.
Heinzelmann...
The detection of the cosmogenic isotope aluminum-26; the concentrations of nickel, cobalt, germanium and gallium; and the presence of two minerals called...
Two new species of ancient cetaceans related to modern dolphins and sperm whales have been identified from the 20-million-year-old fossilized ear bones...
Tanystropheus hydroides, the newly-described species of reptile that lived 242 million years ago (Triassic period), was about 6 m (20 feet) long, with...
A new genus and species of long-necked herbivorous dinosaur that lived during the Triassic period has been identified from fossils found in northern Switzerland.
Schleitheimia...
Paleontologists in Switzerland have unearthed an exceptionally rare fossil jaw of an ancient creature known as a pliosaur.
Life reconstruction of the Arisdorf...
Archaeologists have found a well-preserved Early Bronze Age wooden vessel in the Swiss Alps. The artifact could help researchers shed new light on the...
The first evidence that humans in the Swiss Alps made cheese in the 1st millennium BC is described in research by an international team of archeologists,...
A multinational group of entomologists led by Dr Thomas Hertach from the University of Basel has discovered a new species of singing cicada that occurs...
Entomologists from Switzerland led by Dr Rainer Neumeyer have described a new species of the wasp genus Polistes from Central Europe.
The Swiss paper wasp,...
A group of scientists from Switzerland say that the floodplain-dwelling ants (Formica selysi), when facing a flood, build rafts and use both the buoyancy...
A newly discovered fossil of an early ray-finned fish, named Saurichthys curionii, from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland reveals a previously unknown...
Well-preserved fossilized pollen grains found in northern Switzerland provide evidence that flowering plants may have originated in the early Triassic...
