Mammoths and dinosaurs 2024, May
One of the biggest mysteries of Angkor temples - where dinosaurs could have come from in Cambodia in the 12th century AD
In 1990, Michael Crichton published his novel Jurassic Park, in which scientists cloned dinosaurs using DNA from fossils in amber (the film of the same name was released in 1993)
You've probably seen the famous science fiction film Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg, which tells about a certain Misty Island, where an amusement park with cloned dinosaurs was created
The Isle of Skye, which belongs to Scotland, is a real gold mine for archaeologists. Traces of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures are regularly found on the territory
This conclusion was reached by a group of researchers led by an employee of the Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Pavlov, the scientist himself said in a report to the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences
“Dog coldness and significantly reduced light activity were the end for non-avian dinosaurs about 66 million years ago,” - says a new study and simultaneously indicates that the period of mass extinction for them was much more painful
The revolutionary theory threatens to turn all notions of prehistoric fauna upside down. University of Cambridge biologist Brian Ford believes that all dinosaurs spent most of their time exclusively in water
According to experts, the remains belong to the herbivorous dinosaur sauropod, who lived 70 million years ago. A group of Japanese and Mongolian scientists during a joint study in the Gobi Desert discovered the skeleton of a large dinosaur
The fauna of the Earth would be completely different now if the asteroid, which killed the lizards, arrived a few seconds earlier or later. Scientists have clarified the details of the disaster that happened 66 million years ago
Employees of Tomsk State University discovered a colossal amount of bones of fossil animals that lived a hundred million years ago in the territory where the basin of the Bolshoy Kemchug River is now located, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory
Dinosaur eggs have been found in the province of Neuquen in southern Argentina. As reported by Telam, their age is 70 million years. Remains of dinosaur embryos preserved inside the eggs
The Chechen State University reports the discovery of fossilized dinosaur eggs. “Found about forty pieces, - says geologist Said-Emin Dzhabrailov. - The exact number has not been established. There may be even more of them underground. "
American and Argentine scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur, which turned out to be the largest known. The lizard, named Patagotitan mayorum, reached a length of 37 meters and its mass was 69 tons
The dinosaurs, blamed for the extinction of a fallen giant asteroid, actually fought for tens of millions of years to survive before disappearing from the face of the Earth
This theme is very heavily used in cinematography, but no. Firstly, we have already found out that dinosaur bones are not bones at all. And the second reason, for sure, many people know, but still we will clarify
A team of artists and paleontologists have created, in their own opinion, the most accurate depiction of T-Rex. To do this, they used the latest research data
When dinosaurs come to your mind, do you imagine the big gray monsters that are completely extinct? Well, then you definitely believe in myths related to this topic
South African scientists have found out what the herbivorous dinosaur Ledumahadi mafube looked like, the remains of which were discovered in 2017 in South Africa, and also determined its age. It turned out that the lizard lived on Earth 200 million years ago
A new type of dinosaur is described every ten days on average. This year, 31 new species have already been described, but it is not yet finished. Of course, figuring out what counts as a separate species is not easy
Scientists may have found a fully preserved pygmy mammoth tusk on Santa Cruz Island. It can be used to establish how the mammoths, cut off by the rising sea from California, were shrinking and dying out
About 50-100 thousand years ago, several continents of the Earth were inhabited by dozens of species of giant herbivores and birds of prey - so-called "birds of terror". However, by the beginning of the historical period, most of them became extinct
New paleontological findings are changing the prevailing understanding of pterosaurs - and the most bizarre animals that have ever flown over the earth
Speaking of winged dinosaurs, the image of the pterodactyl, a giant reptile with a wingspan of up to 12 meters, immediately comes to mind. Pterosaurs, as the squad of flying dinosaurs is called, became extinct about 66 million years ago
Everyone loved dinosaurs as a child, and almost everyone loved Jurassic Park. But not many people know that practically everything that mass culture tells us about dinosaurs is - not true
Scientists have found a unique fossil in the United States, indicating that the ancestors of pterosaurs spread over the planet 200 million years ago, long before the first feathered dinosaurs appeared
In the photo: Bones of a pterodactyl cub, top right
A bizarre herbivorous "Frankenstein" dinosaur from Chile, which simultaneously resembles tyrannosaurs and velociraptors, turned out to be a "lost link of evolution" linking carnivorous dinosaurs and their bipedal prey, scientists say in an article published in the journal
70 million years ago, huge pterosaurs lived on the territory of modern Romania, completely unlike their relatives - thin graceful quetzalcoatl. Romanian pterosaurs were tough and powerful and terrified the entire area
Paleontologist Mark Whitton from the University of Portsmouth (UK) has prepared a book for publication with the laconic name "Pterosaurs"
The theory of the role of "double impact" in triggering mass extinctions is confirmed by the participation of volcanoes in the extinction of dinosaurs. The main reason for the disappearance of ancient dinosaurs is considered to be the fall of an asteroid
The mass death of dinosaurs and other ancient animals in Madagascar was associated with the poisonous "bloom" of water. Northwest Madagascar is home to some of the richest deposits of ancient fossils
Dinosaurs - terrestrial vertebrates that dominated the Earth in the Mesozoic era - over 160 million years, from the Late Triassic period (about 225 million years ago) to the end of the Cretaceous period (about 65 million years ago)
The meteorite that killed all dinosaurs on Earth 65 million years ago could have fallen near Indian Mumbai
US paleontologists have re-discovered traces of collagen and other proteins within fossilized dinosaur bones, suggesting that traces of organic matter have been preserved for at least 80 million years, the article says
Ever since University of North Carolina paleontologist Mary Schweitzer discovered their soft tissue in dinosaur fossils, modern science of ancient creatures has been wondering if we can ever find genuine DNA from dinosaurs
British scientists from the Experimental Institute in London concluded that DNA from modern birds can be used to revive extinct dinosaur species
Despite the fact that the bones of dinosaurs are often found in various parts of the Earth, they do not contain, as many might assume, the DNA of these creatures, since for many millions of years they fossilize and turn into minerals
Millions of years ago, they reigned supreme on the planet and, according to scientists, died out long before the appearance of man. Now dinosaurs can only be seen in museums and Hollywood blockbusters. But what if people did find the last of them?
A film by the famous director S. Spielberg about an island where cloned giant lizards roam in an amusement park, probably every our reader has seen
Ancient sharks, which are no longer considered a "living relic", were of great variety. If there is a creature in the world that causes us a primal fear of the inhabitants of the deep sea, it is a shark with giant teeth