Curiosities – 🦖 Paleontology

Oldest Dinosaur Embryo found

October 13, 2020October 13, 2020Paleontology_US

Oldest dinosaur embryos ever found A group of American paleontologists has identified the oldest dinosaur embryos discovered so far. Preserved almost intact inside eggs found in 1976 in South Africa, they belong to a species that lived 190 million years ago, and which was the ancestor of the giant four-legged, long-necked prosauropods, such as Diplodocus. […]

Antarctica was covered with forests in the time of the dinosaurs

September 17, 2020September 24, 2020Paleontology_US

A team of scientists finds remains of pollen, spores and even roots in a sediment sample from 90 million years ago found in the Amundsen Sea. His analysis has made it possible to reconstruct the climate of that time and reach surprising conclusions. 90 million years ago, when the dinosaurs were at their peak, the west coast of […]

Were dinosaurs very smart?

September 9, 2020September 10, 2020Paleontology_US

How Smart Were Dinosaurs? Some paleontologists point out that the most insightful may have been the small theropods of the genus Troodon, which lived about 70 million years ago in present-day North America. They weren’t very big, just over six feet long and one meter tall, weighing around 50 kilos, but apparently they had relatively […]

Dinosaurs were cold too

September 9, 2020September 9, 2020Paleontology_US

Dinosaurs were cold too A team of paleontologists from France and China has shown that during a part of the Lower Cretaceous, temperatures were colder than previously assumed , which implies that in the age of the dinosaurs the climate was not always warm. The paleontologists authors of the study determined the temperatures of the time from fossils of […]

When mammals replaced dinosaurs

August 31, 2020August 31, 2020Paleontology_US

When dinosaurs became extinct 65 million ago, mammals began to grow, multiplying their size by a thousand in some cases. This is the case of Deinotherium, a distant relative of elephants that disappeared 2.7 million years ago and weighed 17.00 kilograms. “The dinosaurs disappear and, suddenly, nobody else eats the vegetation. That means a great availability of food , […]

The most famous dinosaurs of prehistory

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020Paleontology_US

The first dinosaurs evolved during the middle to late Triassic period, about 230 million years ago, in the part of the super continent of Pangea that currently corresponds to South America. Before that, the dominant terrestrial reptiles were archosaurs (dominant reptiles), therapsids (mammal-like reptiles), and pelycosaurs (such as the Dimetrodon that lived during the Permian period). The earliest archosaurs are believed […]

Theories about extinction

August 9, 2020August 10, 2020Paleontology_US

Below we offer you the different theories that have been shuffled over the years to try to explain the reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs, an unknown that has accompanied man for thousands of years. As you can see, these assumptions are very diverse. Here we show you some of the best known explanations. An […]

Smaller dinosaurs

August 8, 2020August 8, 2020Paleontology_US

Dinosaurs are always evoked as beings of great dimensions, but a large number of species of this type of reptile were not so large. There are dinosaurs of many types, weights, heights and sizes and it should be noted that there were actually more small dinosaurs than huge ones. Small dinosaurs could be even smaller than dogs […]

Fossil hints at fuzzy dinosaurs

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020Paleontology_US

Fossil hints at fuzzy dinosaurs A discovery in China has prompted researchers to question the scaly image of dinosaurs. Previously, experts thought the first feathered dinosaurs appeared about 150 million years ago, but the find suggests feathers evolved much earlier. This has raised the question of whether many more of the creatures may have been […]

We thought we knew the biggest dinosaur ever, but it seems someone else might take its place

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020Paleontology_US

It seems T. Rex has probably been sensationalized too much. While the iconic carnivore has been the poster dino for the entire Jurassic Park franchise, there were creatures that made it look like a pet lizard. Titanosaurs trodden the earth from the Jurassic through the mid-late Cretaceous, leaving behind only fragments of their skeletons for scientists to try […]