American researchers have proposed a method of detecting DNA of modern humans genes of other species of hominids for which you do not need to know the genome of the “intruder”, reported in Science Advances. This allows you to look Read more
Canadian scientists have found the fossilized remains of a previously unknown varanopidae, covering his body cub. The species, dubbed Dendromaia unamakiensis, lived on the territory of Nova Scotia 306 million years ago. Now it is the oldest known evidence of Read more
paleontologists have described the mummy of a lemming that accidentally found a Yakut girl. According to scientists, this mummy more than 40 thousand years. The internal organs of the animal has not survived, but survived the skeleton and teeth, which Read more
Australian archaeologists have discovered the oldest known figurative drawings today. It shows, apparently, a hunting scene: bulls and pigs running at armed men. However, some hunters, scientists noticed animal traits. This may mean that the scene at least partly invented Read more
Paleontologists from and Germany described the teeth of a giant long-necked dinosaurs from the group of Sauropods, living in high geographical latitudes. The remains were discovered in the South-West of Yakutia, on pleaserate 62 degrees, which makes the discovery of Read more
Tiny arthropods of nagahuedi living 16 million years ago, traveled on associated ants or termites, it is reported in BMC Evolutionary Biology. It it became clear to paleontologists that found and described the amber with inclusions. In the amber was Read more
Paleontologists have found evidence of what insects pollinate flowering plants 99 million years ago reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In Burmese amber, scientists found the beetle simonescu with the pollen in some angiosperms on the abdomen. Read more
Not a bird or even a dinosaur Let’s start with the scientific side. The authors of the original publication, the staff of the Institute of vertebrate paleontology and paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, headed by Xing Lida (Lida Xing) and Read more