Earth and Environment - Paleontology
Newfound terrestrial crocodile fossil redraws the map of Europe in the age of the dinosaurs
A research team led by Dr. Márton Rabi from the Biogeology Department of the University of , together with Máté Szegszárdi and Professor Attila Osi from the Hungarian Eötvös Loránd University, is challenging the hypothesis that Europe remained connected to Africa during the age of the dinosaurs.
Did the first human ancestor originate in the Balkans? - New fossil shows evidence of bipedalism
An international team of researchers say a newly discovered fossil thighbone from Bulgaria could rewrite the history of human origins.
The last spiny dormouse in Europe
Very few know of them, fewer still have seen them in their natural environment, not least because today only one species of the spiny dormouse survives, in southern India.
Diverse life in a primeval lake
An unusually rich fossil deposit has been discovered and described by an international research team in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
Earliest evidence of wooden tools used by humans
An international team led by researchers from Universities of and Reading and Senckenberg Nature Research Society has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans.
Early hominins from Morocco reveal an African lineage near the root of Homo sapiens
773,000-year-old fossils from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco illuminate the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens , Neandertals, and Denisovans.
Pterosaurs and birds developed flight-ready brains in different ways
It has long been known that pterosaurs and birds acquired their ability to fly independently of each other.
