Tag: Spain
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150-Million-Year-Old Stegosaurus Skull Rewrites Dinosaur Evolution
SciTechDaily has an article about a stegasaur skull discovered in Spain. Stegasaur skulls are rarely found due to the extreme fragility of their bone. This new speciec, Dacentrurus armatus, was found near Villar del Arzobispo Formation and is nearly complete. The rock formation dates to the late Jurassic about 150 million years ago. The research…
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New Spinosaurid Dinosaur Species Identified in Spain
SciNews has a story about the discovery of a new dinosaur species. Riojavenatrix lacustris, a spinosaur, was discovered in Spain. It lived about 120 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. The animal was 7-8 meters long and weight about 1.5 tons. R. lacustris was found by paleontologist Erik Isasmendi and his colleagues at the…
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New Prehistoric Cat Species Discovered in Spain
SciNews has a post about the discovery of a new species of ancient cat. Magerifelis peignei lived about 15.5 million years ago during the Miocene epoch in what is now Spain. It was discovered in 2007 near Madrid at Príncipe Pío-2, which was then a recently discovered fossil locality. The description was published recently in…
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New ‘Giant’ Species of Long-Necked Dinosaur Discovered in Spain
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about the discovery of a new sauropod dinosaur. The dinosaur, Garumbatitan morellensis, lived about 122 million years ago, which is the Cretaceous Period. The specimen was found near Morella in eastern Spain, which is part of the species name. The new animal was described in the journal Zoological Journal of…
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Giant Cave of Prehistoric Art Has Been Hidden Since The Stone Age
Science Alert has a story about the discovery of cave art in Spain. The art is dated to about 24,000 years old. It was found on the walls of a cave at the Cova Dones site near Spain’s Mediterranean coast. The cave has been known by locals for many years, but the art was somehow…
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Prehistoric Surprise: Ancient Footprints Reveal the Presence of Man in Spain 200,000 Years Earlier Than Thought
SciTechDaily has a story about the discovery of some very old footprints. The footprints were found in Spain in 2020. They were thought to date to about 106,000 year old ago and to probably be of Neanderthal origin. Now, Jorge Rivera, a researcher and technician from the University of Seville’s GRS Radioisotopes department has found…
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Scientists Unearth a Prehistoric Marine Turtle the Size of a Car
Smithsonian Magazine has an article about a new fossil turtle. The animal, Leviathanochelys aenigmatica, lived during the Cretaceous Period about 72 million years ago in what is now Spain. It was discovered by a hiker in the Pyrenes mountains. The new species was described in a new paper, which appeared in the journal Scientific Reports.…
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Researchers Have Discovered a Previously Unknown Roman City ‘of Monumental Proportions’ in Northern Spain
artnet has a story about the discovery of a large unknown Roman city in Spain. An entire Roman city has been discovered by Archaeologists from the University of Zaragoza in Spain. The location is just outside the small town of Artieda in Aragon. The remains include stunning motifs of shells, scallops and seahorses. Hopefully, we…
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Facial reconstruction shows powerful Bronze Age woman’s serene expression and huge earrings
Live Science has a story about some facial reconstruction performed on a Bronze Age woman’s skull. Researchers in Spain, discovered the remains of the woman in 2014. She was buried with lavish jewelry – including a diadem, beaded necklaces, silver-crafted rings, bracelets, spiral hairpieces and earplugs with spirals, as well as a silver-rimmed drinking pot…
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Megalodons, the Ocean’s Most Ferocious Prehistoric Predators, Raised Their Young in Nurseries
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about Megalodon sharks. A new paper in the journal Biology Letters raised their your in nurseries like many modern day sharks. Otodus megalodon was probably the largest predatory shark that every lived. It ruled the oceans ruled from 23 to 3.6 million years ago. Nurseries provide a safe haven for baby…
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NY Times: Ancient Fossil Offers a New European Ancestor to Giraffes
The NY Times has a story about giraffes, more specifically… the ancestors of giraffes. Decannatherium rex lived during the late Miocene in Spain. The fossil specimen fills in a lot of gaps in what we knew about giraffes. The lead author of the study was Dr. Maria Rios, a researcher with the Museo Nacional de…
