The archaeological digs conducted at "La Grotte de la Carrière", at the Réseau Lachambre karstic complex help to understand the changes undergone by the Pyrennean ecosystems during the last glacial cycles. The palaeontological research...
The discovery of a rodent fossil that was initially mistaken for a small primate, exceeded all expectations: it is the oldest skeleton of a flying squirrel. This specimen provides new clues to the debate about its origins and indicates that flying...
Reading the life-history of organisms in their bones and teeth is the main task of vertebrate palaeontologists. Bone remains of extinct species do not only evidence about who (taxonomy) or how (morphometry) they were, but also about the...
A characteristic teeth found in the latest Cretaceous outcrops in a zone of Catalonia have provided the evidence to prove the existence of Myliobatiform rays. Moreover, these teeth have been identified as a part of a new fossil species called...
A team of paleontologists led by the Director of the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), David M. Alba, has described in the Journal of Human Evolution 5-million-years-old dental remains that represent the oldest record of macaques in the Iberian...
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Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont have evaluated the body size evolution of Mikrotia magna, a giant rat which dwelled in the paleoisland of Gargano during Late...
A team of paleontologists led by the Director of the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), David M. Alba, has reported in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology a 16-million-year-old pangolin femur from the site of Can...
Researchers from the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont (ICP) propose a new hypothesis for the various species of allodapuquid, through a study that thoroughly reviews the morphological variability present in all these species. This study reaffirms the validity of the different species...
The palaeontological site of Fumanya, in the Berguedà region, is well-known for containing numerous samples of fossilised dinosaur footprints. It is there that researchers from the UAB and the Catalan Institute of Palaeontology recently discovered some very peculiar...
In 1983, a skull fragment found at a site in the village of Orce (Granada, Spain) was presented. It became the remains of the first European, the Orce Man. One year later, part of its discoverers and...
