Mammoths and dinosaurs 2024, May

We are already accustomed to the fact that reports about dinosaurs living in our time come exclusively from Africa. It is not for nothing that such cryptids from the Black Continent as mokele-mbembe and chipquewe are well known to lovers of the paranormal

2015 brought hope for the revival of disappeared monsters At the end of the year, it is customary to take stock, remember important events and make plans for the future

The unusual dinosaur, about 5.5 meters long, had four fins and a short tail. He roamed the vastness of the ancient oceans about 165 million years ago

An encounter with a snake of this incredible size would be the last for any creature on Earth. Titanboa grew 20 meters in length and weighed more than a ton: try to imagine how this wild colossus hunted

June 20 starts the next field season of paleontological excavations in Shestakovo

The process of evolution of living beings on the planet took a long historical period and, as a rule, most species that were unable to get used to climate change died

In 1844, near Rutherford on the River Tweed, workers working in a quarry found a gold thread in a piece of rock. They brought part of it to the newspaper office in the town of Kelso. The sandstone in that area is estimated to be around 360 million years old

At the end of the Cretaceous, a bizarre dinosaur roamed the shores of the Argentinean Rio Colorado. The 10-meter predator had “pneumatic” bones, and air sacs, which now only birds have, helped to breathe

There is a legend that in 1581 the warriors of the famous conqueror of Siberia Ermak saw huge hairy elephants in the dense taiga

Sauropod dinosaurs - the largest land animals of all time - weighed up to 80-100 tons and reached 40-50 meters in length

And here is the man who found this claw in 2007 - the German paleontologist Markus Poschmann. It didn't belong to a predatory giant dinosaur! It is not a four-legged animal at all - be it an amphibian, reptile or mammal

By no means a catastrophe that took place 65 million years ago led to the mass extinction of all living things, scientists are sure

In northeastern Russia, about 1500 km from the North Pole, Belgian paleontologists from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences discovered a previously unknown dinosaur species, which has already been dubbed "polar"

Scientists have isolated individual cells from the fossilized bones of a hadrosaur that died 80 million years ago, and then rebuilt the proteins that made up the ancient raptor. The chase for the genome of fossil animals continues

Photo: Reconstruction In Colombia, discovered the fossilized remains of a giant snake, which has not yet been seen by science. The length of the animal was 12.8 meters, and the weight was - 1135 kilograms

Ancient lizards that roamed the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago could be covered with hair. At least the genes for "hair" proteins in the DNA of modern lizards and birds are - and almost in the same form as in mammals

Ever since the hypothesis that tyrannosaurs were feathered creatures appeared in the scientific community, most ordinary people have got used to ridicule any statements that are associated with new research in the field of paleontology

For a century, Russian dinosaurs have been playing hide and seek with scientists. Who won this exciting game? “Russian dinosaurs, like the snakes of Ireland, are remarkable only for the fact that they do not exist”, - spoke American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh

I present to you a series of photographs that depict the strange, so to the end and unidentified remains of creatures similar to prehistoric reptiles

A few basic signs of paranormal activity can help distinguish phenomena from ordinary events for which there is a rational explanation. In fact, the paranormal happens in our lives more often than is commonly believed

"If it seems to someone that the riddle of the death of dinosaurs is a riddle for idle minds, then let him reflect on the words of one paleontologist:" The complete disappearance of a huge group of animals in one cosmic minute, and animals, so much

The American Indian tribe, predicting global catastrophes, reports with eerie accuracy that the end of the world will occur in the near future, while the comet will crash into the earth

Reviving furry giants is likely in the next decade Using CRISPR-Cas9 genetic editing technology, biologists have long dreamed of reviving extinct species - and ndash; for example, extinct century

Paleontologists have discovered the remains of dinosaurs, which, according to scientists, finally confirm the hypothesis of the death of dinosaurs as a result of a meteorite fall 65 million years ago. The article of scientists appeared in the journal Biology Letters

Scientists argue that dinosaurs may reappear on Earth by 2050. Specialists from the British Adam Smith Institute are confident that it is possible to artificially recreate the process of de-locating different species of non-flying birds

Studying animals that have long been extinct is not easy. And yet paleontologists have managed to extract something over the years

The animal received its generic name in honor of Timur-lenga - of the Central Asian conqueror and commander of the XIV century, known in Europe as Tamerlane Recently found in Uzbekistan, fossils have allowed scientists to assume that the ancestors of Tyrannosaurs who lived

The remains of a prehistoric animal, which Ural fishermen found in Yamal, sparked a debate in scientific circles. Some paleontologists believe that this fossil of a Mesosaur is about 150 million years old

In the middle of last month, a ghost plane crashed near Lake Superior in the Canadian province of Ontario, puzzling police, officials and specialists, including American

Dinosaurs in nature did not have natural enemies, and yet a whole "death field" is known, for example, at the foot of the Tien Shan ridge, where colossal accumulations of the remains of these giants stretch. What caused their sudden death?

American geologists have found deposits of volcanic rocks off the banks of the Tunguska River, whose landfall triggered the Great Permian Extinction of Animals, which destroyed almost all living things 252 million years ago, according to an article published in the journal

Russian scientists and geologists conducted an expedition to the Lyakhovsky Islands, during which they discovered a mammoth skin. It can be used for an ambitious project to clone ancient animals

Scientists find the remains of previously unknown giant reptiles - one more monstrous than the other Bones - fragments of a skull with huge teeth found in Madagascar suggest that their owner may well have eaten dinosaurs

A dinosaur's tail, 99 million years old, with all bones, soft tissue and even feathers, was found preserved in amber. This was written in the journal Current Biology

For some reason, everyone is interested in how and under what circumstances the terrible monsters of the Mesozoic - dinosaurs - died. But a much more intriguing question is how did they come about?

The ancestors of modern birds from among the dinosaurs survived the disaster that killed the rest of the lizards due to the fact that they learned to feed on seeds. This hypothesis was made by scientists, authors of an article in the journal Current Biology

Researchers will soon begin searching for an asteroid that is believed to have led to the death of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. For this, a special drilling platform will be built in the Gulf of Mexico

The largest extinction in Earth's history has been associated with sea waves, bacteria, warming, asteroids and volcanoes. However, all these versions contradicted each other and the newly discovered facts

The fall to Earth of a meteorite 65 million years ago, which caused the death of dinosaurs, is nothing more than an accident, the probability of which was extremely small

Paleontologists were able to find evidence that some species of dinosaurs in certain regions of the planet could survive a catastrophic extinction that occurred 65 million years ago