Un equipo internacional de paleontólogos ha publicado este mes en la revista científica Acta Palaeontologica Polonica un trabajo que describe una nueva especie de dinosaurio, localizada por el Colectivo Arqueológico-Paleontológico de Salas de los Infantes (Burgos). Leer más.

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with help from an amateur fossil hunter in College Park, Md., have described the fossil of an armored dinosaur hatchling. It is the youngest nodosaur ever discovered, and a founder of a new genus and species that lived approximately 110 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous Era. Leer más.

asualitat, sort o mera supervivència, o potser una barreja de tots tres conceptes ha fet possible que aquest cap de setmana es produís un petit miracle animal a la platja de Malgrat de Mar. L’ampla i transitada costa del municipi turístic s’ha descobert també com a refugi inhabitual, però alhora efectiu, perquè una tortuga babaua (Caretta caretta) hi nidifiqués. Leer más.

As the climate heats up, scientists expect all sorts of animals to move to cooler places. But that may be easier said than done. Leer más.

Despite its appearance, the giant burrowing frog (Heleioporus australiacus) is not a Hutt crime lord trying wreak havoc on Luke Skywalker’s life. Instead, this funny looking cutie is spends its time burrowing and calling to potential mates from partially flooded burrows at the banks of rivers. Leer más.