paleontology Tag Posts Index

Cinco especies luego de 50 millones de años 🇪🇸 ထ 🇺🇸 Five Species After 50 Million Years

Saludos. Para entrar en contexto, la evolución especulativa combina biología evolutiva, paleontología y ecología para imaginar cómo podría verse la vida en condiciones

Where the Wild Things Are

I enjoy picking fights with extinct or dangerous species. When I see one, my caveman circuits turn on, and I immediately think: how would I defend myself if it attacked

A Timely Encounter

The study of geology is not for the faint of heart, especially where the math and physics are concerned for processes and events that happened over the course of

Fossils: The Stone Archive That Holds Secrets of Our Past. By Florencia Renata. ( ENG)

Have we ever seen a stone shaped like a snail, a footprint marked in rock, or a bone that seems too large to belong to any modern animal? All of these, without us

Dinosaurs: Giants That Left Footprints Beyond Time. By Florencia Renata

What comes to mind when we think of dinosaurs? Perhaps a Tyrannosaurus Rex roaring in the middle of a jungle, maybe a pile of enormous bones in a museum, or probably

Dinosaurs: Giants That Left Footprints Beyond Time. By Florencia Renata (ENG)

What comes to mind when we think of dinosaurs? Perhaps a Tyrannosaurus Rex roaring in the middle of a jungle, maybe a pile of enormous bones in a museum, or probably

A T. rex fossil sold for $31.8 million- should scientific evidence be treated as a luxury asset?

Stan is now displayed in a new museum in Abu Dhabi (opened in 2025), but the broader debate about privately influenced fossil access remains ongoing in modern

Breugnathair elgolensis: 167-Million-Year-Old Jurassic Reptile Sheds Light on Snake Evolution

Breugnathair elgolensis, 167 Million Years OldImage Credit: National Museums Scotland / Brennan Stokkermans via Popular Science A remarkable fossil discovered on

[ESP/ENG] Geólogos chinos visitan el museo del Servicio Geológico de Cuba

Una introducción necesaria Como he explicado en diferentes ocasiones, trabajo como director de Gestión del Conocimiento en el Servicio Geológico de Cuba que, también,

Mass Extinctions: The "End of the World" That’s Happened Five Times (Part 2)/ Extinciones masivas: el "fin del mundo" que ha pasado cinco veces (ENG/ESP)

Image: generated using Openart.ai In my last post, I defined Mass Extinctions (MEs) and mentioned there have been five—so far. Let’s cut to the chase, as the

Stone Daydreams

I bent down on the shore and reached into the water to pick up the unusual stone. It was reddish with pieces of rock crust and crystalized structure. The surface

[ENG/ESP] An adventure at the Museum of the Institute of Geology and Paleontology of Cuba (IGP)

A necessary introduction To know where we came from is to know where we are, where we are going. This is a maxim that has always accompanied me; that is why I always

Kaprosuchus - The Boar-like Crocodilia

If you decide to study paleontology (scientific study of past life forms through fossils), you would be shocked at the amazing life that graced our planet far before

IV Prehistoryczny Czwartek, czyli eocen, oligocen oraz miocen na Ziemiach Polskich

Czy zastanawialiście się kiedyś co w trawie piszczy? Na pewno! Gdybyście byli na spotkaniu czwartkowym 20. czerwca, moglibyście się dowiedzieć nawet co w trawie

Visit of the GONDWANA-Praehistorium. / Besuch des GONDWANA-Praehistoriums.

English One of the last things we did before emigrating to the Philippines was to visit the GONDWANA, a natural history museum in Schiffweiler, Saarland. The dimensions

Things That Walked Long Ago Part II

Hello friends and Hivers! I'm back again to take you where I left off at with my visit at The University of Nebraska State Museum -Morrill Hall. If you missed part

Recorrido por el Museo de Paleontología Yu. A. Orlov de Moscú (Esp-Eng)//Tour of the Yu. A. Orlov Museum of Paleontology in Moscow (Esp-Eng)

Saludos a todos Es primera vez en esta linda comunidad y les comparto mi experiencia de mi visita al museo de paleontología Yu. A. Orlov en el año 2016, uno de los

Visit to the Museum of Paleontology Yu. A. Orlov. Moscow

Greetings dear friends of Pinmapple!! On this occasion, I share with you my experience of my visit to the museum of paleontology Yu. A. Orlov in 2016, one of the

[ENG/ESP] Paleontology in the context of the Geological Survey of Cuba

A necessary introduction dinosaur museum It has always been an enigma to know why the dinosaurs became extinct, or when it happened, how to know the age of the planet,

Polish hummingbird that astonished scientists / Polski koliber, który zadziwił naukowców

🇬🇧This specimen is as old as 31 million years, which makes it one of the oldest hummingbirds in the world⌛🐣🌍. At the same time, it is also one of the smallest