A million years in sight! International cooperation has raised the age ofAustralopithecus africanus, a species of Australopithecus that lived in southern Africa. Until then, sediment
Tag: paleontology
Death of Yves Coppens, co-discoverer of Australopithecus Lucy
Yves Coppens is dead, announced his editor Odile Jacob on Wednesday June 22. This French paleoanthropologist, professor emeritus at the National Museum of Natural History
“A mammoth memory”, the life of paleontologist Yves Coppens
A mammoth memory, by Yves Coppens, Editions Odile Jacob, 443 pages, €24.90 Having trouble remembering what you ate for lunch? Yves Coppens, he remembers his
Paleontology, a case of scientific colonialism
In English it is called “Science parachute”, science parachutes. Namely that practiced by researchers from developed countries of the North who carry out their work
Paleontology: alongside Lucy, other bipeds ignored?
1976, Laetoli, in the middle of the Tanzanian savannah. In the volcanic tuff, five footprints are found. “Strange” and “Oddly formed”, the large footprints resemble
Argentina, fabulous dinosaur cemetery
“This is a caudal vertebra of the tail of this new dinosaur, it weighs between 20 and 25 kg. ” Dissector in hand, like the
“There are still many dinosaur fossils to be discovered”
La Croix: Where can we find dinosaur fossils? Damien Germain: All over ! The fossiliferous deposits are distributed throughout the world, as long as the
An allosaur skeleton could panic auctions
A 150 million year old treasure. An impressive reconstruction of the posture of an animal ten meters long, threatening with its open mouth and sharp