Arte prehispánico en Venezuela: Una maravilla artística desconocida para muchos

Nuestro equipo encontró probables herramientas prehistóricas de marfil en Venezuela. Creemos que podrían tener más de 10.000 años de antigüedad. Esto se publicó ayer en la prestigiosa revista PaleoAmerica. Pueden ver los artefactos en el Museo de Taratara, Falcón, Venezuela.

Nuestra nueva especie de tiburón fósil del Jurásico, encontrado en los Alpes suizos por un montañista y fue nombrado en su honor: Strophodus timoluebkei New fossil shark from the Jurassic, found in the Swiss Alps by a mountaineer and named after him. sjpp.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

🧵 THE ONE-INCH ANIMAL THAT ENDED SCARCITY FOREVER A pistol shrimp creates nuclear explosions with every snap. Hotter than the sun. Louder than gunshots. It turns water into light. This tiny creature might hold the secret to unlimited energy, transmuting elements, and creating

Colombiano explica geológicamente por qué Venezuela tiene tanto petróleo y Colombia no.

Our work on Blowguns was recently published. Nuestro trabajo sobre cerbatanas fue publicado recientemente. cambridge.org/core/journals/… Also here a general note: cambridge.org/core/blog/2025…

A morphological, morphometric and geochemical characterization of the El Jobo projectile points – diversity and significance in early human populations across the Americas. Publicado recientemente por nuestro equipo / Recently published by our team link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Paleontologists have described a new species of the extinct turtle genus Craspedochelys based on a remarkable fossil shell and some of its postcranial bones from Colombia. sci.news/paleontology/c… #fossils #paleontology

Recreation of a Prehistoric Bison Jump Buffalo Bill Center of the West Cody, Wyoming

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Este es mi cuadro favorito del gran pintor Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau representa a doce españoles, con sus morriones y corazas, en agosto de 1540, en un desierto, contemplando el Gran Cañón de Colorado. No fueron anglosajones ni franceses sus descubridores, fueron españoles. (Sigue)

Imagine how bizzare certain chapters of human history were…

Spear thrower, Atlatl, Woomera. All names to describe this timeless weapon.

Primatologist, conservationist, animal advocate, educator, and National Geographic Explorer Jane Goodall has died at age 91. Goodall’s decades of research into the lives of wild chimpanzees transformed our understanding of these intelligent apes. on.natgeo.com/48JYSdP

#Archaeology is about people. People like the #Gravettian hunter who, 30k yrs ago in southern Moravia, lost or dropped his pouch containing a well-used tool kit of stone blades & points, (incl. partially broken pieces he could've let go a lot earlier): archaeology.org/news/2025/09/2…

This beautiful little mammoth was carved from mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago. It was found in an excavation tip from a dig that happened more than 70 years earlier, at Vogelherd Cave, Germany

Nature's Nightmare Fuel: The Pink Empusa Mantis

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. phys.org/news/2025-10-e… #fossils #paleontology

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The unbelievable geometry of a puffer fish skeleton.