 | Buckland (March 12, 1784 – August 15, 1856) was the first man to identify and name a dinosaur (Megalosaurus), although the name dinosaur had not yet been coined by Richard Owen.artly in response to the controversial works of Cuvier, Buckland wrote Reliquiae Diluvianae (1823) in which he argued that the evidence of geology alone demonstrated that a great flood had covered the entire globe. Leer más. |
In the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs, there is a great fossil mismatch. You can find the deceptive pairing in the Apatosaurus exhibit. Set in the floor behind the enormous dinosaur is a set of trackways—the Apatosaurus is posed as if the skeletal sauropod has just left the tracks behind. But there is no way that Apatosaurus left those tracks. The footprints and the long-necked dinosaur on display were separated by tens of millions of years. Leer más.
Bulgarian customs officials seized a large number of live reptiles, insects and crabs – some of them dangerous – stashed in suitcases in a bus travelling from the Czech Republic, they said on Monday. Leer más.
Llegaron a España a centenares durante los años en los que nadie se planteaba el riesgo de las especies invasoras. Parecían inofensivas, decoraban los estanques y hacían felices a los niños. En la actualidad, los galápagos de Florida, nombre genérico por el que se conocen popularmente a distintas especies— en especial la Trachemys scripta—, se han extendido por todas las zonas húmedas valencianas, donde encuentran un hábitat ideal para vivir y reproducirse… a miles. Leer más.
