News of palaeontology

New Patagonian dinosaur may be largest yet: scientists

21-01-2021 12:11 Scientists have unearthed massive, 98-million-year-old fossils in southwest Argentina they say may have belonged to the largest dinosaur ever discovered.

Palaeontology

Climate change devastated dinosaurs not once, but twice

02-12-2020 18:27 Most people know that land-dwelling dinosaurs were wiped out some 66 million years ago when an asteroid crashed into Earth. What most people don't know is that more than 100 million years earlier, another climate change cataclysm devastated a different set of dinosaur species, with many going extinct.

SCIENCE & NATURE

Fossil of giant 70m year-old fish found in Patagonia

07-07-2020 01:52 Paleontologists find the remains of a predator fish that was more than six meters long near Lago Colhué Huapial in Chubut Province.

SCIENCE & NATURE

Fossil of two million year old frog found in Argentina

08-06-2020 23:01 Paleontologists find fossilised remains of a rare species of frog that lived two million years ago.

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Fossil of 43-million-year-old penguin skin found in Antarctic

16-03-2020 07:00 Researchers have announced the discovery of fossilised skin on the remains of the wing of a 43-million-year-old penguin on Marambio Island in the Antarctic.