Paleontology

Paleontology

It’s a stick, it’s a stone

Petrified plants reveal the look of the landscape 300 million years ago

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Paleontology

The tapeworm and the shark

Fossilized feces of fish 270 million years old contain tapeworm eggs

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Paleontology

Hard of hearing, but a good head

African dinosaur had agile skull movement for self defense

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Paleontology

Nest of a “flamingrebe”

Fossilized nest support relationship between flamingos and grebes

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Ask the researchers

Ask the researchers

How is it known if dinosaurs hunted or scavenged?

Precambrian Fauna

Life protected by armor

The Northern of Paraguay have fossils of the earliest animals with skeletons

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Cretaceous

The bacteria that ate pterosaurs

Bacteria fossils have been found on 115 million year-old pterosaurs

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Fossils

Identity of fossils

Study almost doubles Neopermian vertebrate species in Brazil

Fossils

The hoatzin’s long journey

Origins of the Amazonian bird that “ruminates”

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Paleobotany

The trees of the desert

Forest of conifer trees thrived a hot and sandy environment

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Paleontology

A prehistoric tapir

Amazonia may have harbored a now extinct species 40,000 years ago

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Paleontology

Late Extinction

Terror bird disappeared before the arrival of humans in the Americas

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Paleontology

Brazilian dinosaurs

A book tells the story of 21 species found in Brazil

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Zoology

Colors in the wind

Genes and fossils reveal the origin of South American butterflies

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Sphagesaurus montealtensis

Butchers from the past

Ancestor of crocodiles, reptile ate meat and also vegetables

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Paleobotanics

Grain from the past

Fossilized pollen suggests a damp climate 15,000 years ago

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