World news about “Paleontology” published by euronews.
Flying lizard set to change the textbooks An international team of Romanian, British and Brazilian palaeontologists has discovered a new species of pterosaurus called Eurazhdarcho in Romania. It is a… 14/02/2013
Richard III found DNA tests on the skeleton discovered under a car park in Leicester in the UK last autumn show that the remains are indeed those of Richard III – arguably the… 06/02/2013
Neanderthal cloning remains theoretical There is no chance a Neanderthal is going to move in next door anytime soon, despite frenzied media speculation about the viability of cloning one. Although… 30/01/2013
Mammoth skeleton found in Siberia Scientists say that a mammoth that roamed the Siberian tundra may have been killed by an Ice Age man on a summer’s day tens of thousands of years ago. They… 10/10/2012
Fossil hunters turn up mammoth find An international team from Russia’s North-Eastern Federal University have found the well-preserved remains of a prehistoric woolly mammoth. They were on a… 26/09/2012
Dinosaur discovery in south of France Some 75 million years ago, this gigantic 12 metre-long dinosaur – Atsinganosaurus velauciensis, a member of the Titanosaurus family, lived in the south of… 06/09/2012
The skeleton from South Africa which may be the missing link A skeleton discovered by a nine-year-old boy near Johannesburg in South Africa is being hailed as one of the most important finds in human archaeology. It… 28/09/2011
Earliest known paintings under study in France The Chauvet cave in southern France is home to some of the earliest known man-made paintings, dating back some 32,000 years. A team of scientists is… 23/11/2010
Fossil discoveriesResearchers in Gabon are studying fossils containing signs of life dating back two billion years. To the un-trained eye, they are just stones. But for… 06/07/2010
Giant whale discovered in PeruThe fossil of a giant whale with teeth twice as long as those of a Tyrannosauraus Rex has been unveiled by scientists in Peru. The team from the country’s… 02/07/2010
