Mammoths and dinosaurs 2024, May
In the Channel Islands National Park on Santa Rosa Island, located in southern California, scientists have discovered an unusual find, a mammoth skull, which does not belong to the known species of these ancient animals
Mammoths are not extinct! They still live in Siberia, hiding under the ground and water. They were seen by many eyewitnesses, and in the press there are often notes about them. Where do modern mammoths live?
A unique statuette of a bison and two female figurines carved from the mammoth tusk of the Upper Paleolithic era were discovered by archaeologists near Zaraisk, 150 km from Moscow
Today, the planet is home to about ten million different types of organisms. This number is impressive, but if you add to it all the species that have existed on the planet before, the total amount is five billion
The French find may be the key to the mystery of the evolution of these incredible creatures. In the north of France, paleontologists dug up the skull of a steppe mammoth - "extremely rare", according to experts, BBC reports
A strange metallic fraction found in the bones of extinct giants This week at the convention of the US Geophysical Union, Berkeley Laboratory employee, chemistry doctor Richard Firestone, presented to the audience eight mammoth tusks found in Alaska, and
Homo sapiens - a newcomer to the planet: our Earth is already 4.6 billion years old, and the first people appeared only 200 thousand years ago. For you to be able to read this text today, our ancestors had to survive among animals that inspired real horror
Folklore is replete with a considerable number of legends about various ferocious monsters that once lived on the planet. However, such monsters did not leave behind any traces, and therefore, scientific evidence of their existence
Ural tourists can surprise the entire scientific world with their unusual discovery. The day before, while rafting in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, they found a fossil that closely resembles a dinosaur skull
When, in 1658, Admiral Etienne de Flacour released "The History of the Big Island of Madagascar", which summed up his long stay in this corner of the Earth, it contained a lot of the most incredible information, perceived as the fables of travelers, and their
A baby lizard of a previously unknown species lived 110 million years ago. Australian and Korean scientists spotted strange chains of footprints in the petrified clay of one of the lakes in South Korea
The famous American paleontologist Jack Horner, who at one time participated in the work on the film "Jurassic Park", intends to bring to life a movie scenario and create a real living dinosaur
Long before the appearance of whales, the oceans belonged to ichthyosaurs: they were at the top of the Triassic food chain. At least that's how it was or was accepted
Snake people are used to living apart in hard-to-reach places Sounds like a tabloid headline in pursuit of a sensation, doesn't it?
Paleobiologists from the University of Oslo, Norway have found out what numbers are expressed in the existing number of dinosaur species. The numbers obtained showed that the average number of species is estimated at 1936
Find an ancient mosquito in the amber. Isolate dinosaur blood from his stomach. Extract DNA from there and inject it into the crocodile embryo. Hatch the egg. Feed the dinosaur. Open Jurassic Park
The artifact is the first find of such a plan, made in the Arctic. Such a scientific discovery can be called truly sensational. Many scientists have tried to find the remains of dinosaurs outside the Arctic Circle
On the Lyakhovsky Islands in Yakutia, scientists recently discovered the remains of a female mammoth, preserved in excellent condition. And today it turned out that liquid blood was preserved in the body of the discovered mammoth
The recent discovery of another frozen mammoth has already generated a scientific discussion: for example, scientists cannot understand how the animal's blood could remain liquid under the ice for millennia
On May 22, 2013, the participants of the paleontological expedition of the Research Institute of Applied Ecology of the North of the North-Eastern Federal University and the Russian Geographical Society returned to Yakutsk
Yakut scientists discovered the remains of a mammoth on the territory of the republic. According to preliminary data, the find has a high degree of preservation
Thousands of years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by huge flightless birds, whose height was much higher than that of humans. When their bones fell into the hands of scientists for the first time, these birds were called epyornis, and in everyday life they were most often called elephant birds
Tomsk State University researchers described a new species of herbivorous dinosaur belonging to the family of titanosaurids. The public was informed about the opening by the press service of TSU
The eggs of a fossil animal, which are supposedly about 90 million years old, were found on the banks of the Don River by students of the Kamensk secondary school №2 (Voronezh region)
Jose Nievas, an ordinary Argentine farmer, was walking near his home when he came across an extremely unusual find. A huge, well-preserved artifact most closely resembled a dinosaur egg
Dinosaurs lived alongside humans in prehistoric times, and this is proven in rock carvings, some experts say. Often overlooked, rock carvings found around the world may hold the secrets of our past
Jose Nievas, an ordinary Argentine farmer, was walking near his home when he came across an extremely unusual find. A huge, well-preserved artifact most closely resembled a dinosaur egg
Scientists have discovered the remains of a dinosaur 37.2 m long and weighing about 48 tons, which is recognized as the largest known land lizards, according to the journal Scientific Reports
American paleontologists have found the bones of dinosaurs that lived for another 700 thousand years after the Great Cretaceous extinction of these reptiles
Since the 90s of the last century, paleontologists have been divided into two camps. Most of them consider the theory of the origin of birds from dinosaurs undeniable, the smaller part - more and more doubts it and gives new evidence to the contrary
Experts have not found confirmation of the hypothesis that mammoths inhabiting North America were destroyed when a meteorite or comet fell to Earth 13 thousand years ago
Just 100 thousand years ago, the territory of modern Asia was inhabited by monstrous apes. This is not an exaggeration. Gigantopithecus reached a height of three meters and weighed up to half a ton
Evolution ordered that the cross-finned fish became our fish ancestors, of which only the relict coelacanth now exists, which certainly deserves a separate article in the future
The peculiarities of the climate in different geological epochs contributed to the rapid development of a particular vegetation and the appearance of certain species of animals. So, the conditions of the Jurassic period were the best suited for the life of dinosaurs
An international team of scientists has clarified the reason for the extinction of ichthyosaurs - marine reptiles that resemble fish and dolphins. This is reported in an article published in the scientific journal Nature Communications
During a scientific expedition to Antarctica, a group of scientists, consisting of representatives from different countries, was able to find more than a ton of diverse marine dinosaur fossils
Scientists from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute have redefined the attitude towards dinosaurs due to new fossils. The research materials appeared in the specialized edition. Paleontologist Sterling Nesbitt examines palm-sized find
The end of last week brought a sensation to the Volgograd region: dinosaur eggs were found in the village of Mokraya Olkhovka, Kotovsky district. The find is truly amazing
Scientists from the Potsdam Institute for the Study of Climate Change (Germany) have proved that dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago from darkness and cold. Their article in the Tribune de Gen è ve says that it was these conditions that killed the ancient reptiles
Probably the most famous photograph in history associated with the existence of pterodactyls, - this is an image that takes us back to the American Civil War, 1864