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A single footprint left by a cat-sized dinosaur around 100 million years ago has been discovered in China by an international team of palaeontologist, the University of Queensland said. The footprint was made by a herbivorous, armoured dinosaur known broadly as a stegosaur. With a footprint of less than six centimetres, this is the smallest known stegosaur footprint.  Continue...  

  A fossil of a skunk-like mammal that lived around 72-74 million years ago has been discovered in Chile, scientists said. A part of the creature's fossilised jawbone with five teeth attached was discovered close to the Torres del Paine national park. University of Chile's Sergio Soto said Chile's southern tip has a lot of potential in terms of palaeontology. Continue...

Scientists on Thursday announced the discovery of a nearly-complete fossil of a "bizarre" shark that existed about 93 million years ago. Called Aquilolamna milarcae, the shark was shaped unlike any other known marine creature and had curiously elongated wing-like fins. It had a fin span of about 6-1/4 feet and was about 5-1/2 feet in length.  Continue...  

A 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite rock found in the Sahara desert in May 2020 is the oldest volcanic rock ever found, scientists said. The University of Western Brittany's Jean-Alix Barrat-led team suggests the meteorite 'Erg Chech 002' was part of the crust of an ancient protoplanet that broke up early in the solar system's past.  Continue...  

A tooth from a mammoth that lived more than 10 lakh years ago has yielded the world's oldest DNA sequence . Previously , the most ancient DNA sample was from a horse that lived between 560,000 and 780,000 years ago . " This DNA is incredibly old , " said Love Dalen , a professor of evolutionary genetics at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm .  Continue...

A four-year-old girl discovered a well-preserved dinosaur footprint on a beach near Barry in South Wales. As per National Museum Wales, the footprint has been preserved for 220 million years. It is just over 10 cm long and is likely to have been made by a dinosaur that stood about 75 cm tall and 2.5 m long, the museum added.  Continue...  

A rare fossilised tree whose branches and roots are still intact after 20 million years has been found by Greek scientists on the volcanic island of Lesbos. "It is a unique find..[It] is preserved in excellent condition and from studying the fossilised wood we will be able to identify the type of plant it comes from," a professor said.  Continue...

 Archaeologists have discovered the world's oldest known animal cave painting in Indonesia believed to be drawn at least 45,500 years ago. The life-size painting of a wild pig also has two hand prints above the back of the animal. It was found in the Leang Tedongnge cave in a remote valley on Sulawesi island. Continue... Q no. 1-Study of Heavenly bodies is called? (a) Astronomy (b) Astrophysics (c) Astrology (d) Astronautics -Send your answer at comment -Righat answer will show in the next article... Thank you 😊 

Paleontologists have found one of the best- preserved specimens of an Ice Age-era woolly rhino to date in Siberia. The rhino is believed to have lived in the late Pleistocene era, anywhere between 20,000 and 50,000 years ago. It was discovered with all its limbs, some of its organs including part of the intestines, its tusk and a lump of fat. Continue...  

A sample of rock that was collected from a mine in Cornwall around 220 years ago has turned out to be an entirely new species of mineral. It was catalogued as something else and kept in London's Natural History Museum (NHM) since 1964. The dark green mineral has been named 'Kernowite' after Kernow, the Cornish language word for Cornwall. Continue...

  Pterosaurs dominated the sky about 150 million years ago when the earth was occupied by dinosaurs.  Since it was from the time of the dinosaurs, people called it ‘Flying SLUHHUR (Flying Dynasore) sšalj 213  So far, little has been known about the “king of the heavens.”  Thus, it is not known how this creature evolved and began to fly despite having a huge body. Scientists have now solved this big cockroach.  A study published in the popular journal Nature found that small dinosaur-like creatures called lagerpetids were the closest to the pterosaurs.  The development of both matches.  After this important discovery you will now be able to get new information about the development of the first king of the sky and his ability to fly. Scientists have solved a 200-year-old mystery.   However, along with the dinosaurs, the pterosaurs also disappeared from the earth about 66 million years ago.  These pterosaurs are often called dragon models....

The University of Bristol's scientists have "rebuilt" the brain of a Thecodontosaurus, that roamed England some 205 million years ago, using advanced imaging and 3D modelling techniques. They said unlike its plant-eating relatives, Thecodontosaurus may have eaten meat and could have walked on two legs. Experts also reconstructed its inner ears and estimated that it had high hearing frequency. Continue...