Paleontology

OBITUARY

A naturalist among geologists

Setembrino Petri showed how microfossils can retell the history of natural landscapes

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Paleontology

Related sauropods found in Australia and South America

Dinosaur species from Australia roamed between continents 95 million years ago

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Paleontology

Dinosaur fossil to be returned to Brazil

Dinosaur fossil returned to Brazil

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Archaeology

Fossil was a giant honeybee hive

Giant honeybee nest mistaken for a fossil, leading to erroneous geological conclusions

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Archaeology

Pre-historic site may harbor the first araucaria pine record in rock art

Cave painting at a prehistoric site in the interior of Paraná would be the first record of the species in rock art

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Paleontology

A 34-million-year-old flower

Revised description of fossilized flower preserved in amber indicates the climate in northern Europe was milder in the distant past

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Paleontology

A boreal forest from the past

Polar desert in Greenland may have been a boreal forest two million years ago

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Paleontology

The banded spider of Taubaté

Fossil from Taubaté used to describe an extinct spider with a banded pattern and very long front legs

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Archaeology

A 4,000-year-old comb for removing head lice

Archaeologists find 4,000-year-old comb for removing head lice

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PALEONTOLOGY

Myanmar fossils in foreign hands

Publication figures indicate that paleontologists took advantage of armed conflicts in Myanmar to gain access to fossils preserved in amber

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History

Mercenaries fought against the Carthaginians alongside the Greeks

Mercenaries fought against the Carthaginians alongside the Greeks in 480 B.C.

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Paleontology

The first bipedal hominids

Considered the oldest representative of the human lineage, the species Sahelanthropus tchadensis lived around seven million years ago

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PALEONTOLOGY

Presence of water diversified vegetation in north and northeast Brazil 115 million years ago

The formation of the South Atlantic Ocean and increased rainfall was responsible for the growth of forests and plains

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PALEONTOLOGY

Fred the wandering mastodon

Researchers identify the migratory routes of a mastodon that died approximately 13,200 years ago

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PALEONTOLOGY

Fossil from Bahia classified as new species of camelid

Hemiauchenia mirim lived 20,000 years ago and was related to the guanaco

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Paleontology

São Paulo was once covered by forest

São Paulo Metropolitan Area was once covered by vast forest of araucaria trees between 180,000 and 135,000 years ago

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PALEONTOLOGY

Study of repatriated Brazilian fossil suggests pterosaurs had colorful feathers

Article was published in the journal Nature by researchers from Europe and Brazil

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Paleontology

The Cause of Big John’s Headache

Hole in dinosaur skull resulted from an attack before it died 66 million years ago

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PALEONTOLOGY

A precursor to dinosaurs

An 11-centimeter right femur is all that remains of the oldest dinosaur precursor ever found in South America

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Paleontology

The largest “sea dragon” fossil in the UK

Paleontologists and conservationists announced that they had identified the UK's largest ichthyosaur fossil

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Interview

Rodolfo Nogueira: Stunningly real dinosaurs

How a paleoartist combines technical and scientific knowledge to recreate extinct animals with a wealth of detail

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Paleoecology

Caribbean incursions

Studies back up the hypothesis that the Caribbean Sea flooded parts of the western Amazon between 23 and 10 million years ago

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PALEONTOLOGY

Armed and Armored

A new species of armored dinosaur with a very peculiar tail has been described by Chilean paleontologists

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Zoology

Protozoan fossil in Brazilian amber

Researchers at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) have described a new extinct species of protozoan: Palaeohypothrix bahiensis

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Paleontology

The Battle of the Fossils

The State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe in Germany announced that it has no plans to return the original fossil of Ubirajara jubatus to Brazil

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Video

The problem of fossil traficking

Paleontologists speak with Federal Prosecutors and the Federal Police to bring a stop to the trafficking of fossil assets in Brazil

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Paleontology

Brazilian paleontologists identify new carnivorous dinosaur

A group of Brazilian researchers has identified a new species of carnivorous dinosaur, a dromeosaurid named Ypupiara lopai

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Oceanography

The Saga of the Paratethys

The world's largest lake formed 12 million years ago and then disappeared, giving rise to the Caspian and Black Seas

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Paleontology

The near extinction of sharks

Ocean sediment fossil records suggest that today's sharks are descended from the few survivors of a mass extinction that wiped out nearly all the shark species that lived in the early Miocene Epoch

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The pterosaur of the trees

A 160-million-year-old fossil discovered in Liaoning, northeast China, belongs to a new species of pterosaur, which has been generating curiosity

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