In celebration of its 150th Anniversary, the American Museum of Natural History in New York opens today, March 11, a huge exhibition on the Tyrannosaurus Rex: “T-Rex: The Ultimate Predator.” Everyone knows the Tyrannosaurus, but Do we know that their young were more like turkeys than the large predators they would become, being even more “fluffy”?
Seven years ago, at the last moment of a long and frustrating excavation, the archaeologist Calliope Limneos-Papakosta found, thanks to the movement of the earth in an excavated hole, a piece of marble appeared that belonged to a Hellenistic statue of Alexander the Great that today It is exhibited in the National Museum of Alexandria.
On the occasion of the celebration of its Bicentennial, the Prado Museum receives a unique and exceptional visit from one of the most recognized and internationally acclaimed classical pianists, Lang Lang. At 10pm. On Thursday, March 21, the famous Chinese pianist will tour some of the rooms in the permanent collection of the Prado Museum and in room 12, in front of Las Meninas, he will perform two pieces that represent Lang Lang's personal tribute to 200 years history of the institution and the inspiring capacity of the works that it treasures.
Argentinosaurus fileTranslation: Argentine lizardDescription: herbivore, quadruped Order: SaurischiaSuborder: SauropodomorphaInfraorder: SauropodaFamily: TitanosauridaeHeight: 21.4 metersLength: 34 metersWeight: 73,000 - 90-000 kg largest dinosaurs discovered so far.
For thousands of years, many populations have sustained their diet in mariculture, a diet based mainly on shellfish. Until now, it had been thought that these ancient communities ate mollusks and crustaceans because they had an abundant and nearby natural source at their disposal. A new study, published in PLoS ONE, now proposes a new theory.
Paleontologists from the University of Alberta (Canada) have reported that the Tyrannosaurus skeleton found in Canada in 1991 corresponds to the world's largest Tyrannosaurus rex. Nicknamed “Scotty” after a bottle of whiskey that researchers opened to celebrate the night the time he was discovered, “it's the Rex of Rexes,” said Scott Persons, lead author of the study in which he was mentioned, and a postdoctoral researcher in the university's Department of Biological Sciences.
The Interpretation Center of Nuevo Baztán presents “The stamp at the service of Illustrated Spain”, an exhibition that analyzes the use of engraving in the 18th century to promote a change in the country's image and the normalization of aesthetics and artistic taste The illustrated people of the second half of the 18th century made a new Spain known in Europe through engraving.
Avaceratops fileTranslation: Ava Cole's hornface Description: herbivore, quadruped Order: Ornithischia Suborder: MarginocephaliaInfraororder: CeratopsiaMicroorder NeoceratopsiaFamily: CeratopsidaeHeight: Length: 4.2 metersWeight: up to 1,000 kg in length, compared to the highest Ceratopsian length: 9 meters in comparison Avaceratops was very small.
Many works and pieces of great value were saved from the fire that suffered the Notre Dame Cathedral yesterday. A human chain made up of firefighters, security agents, the archbishop's team and technicians from the Ministry of Culture, managed to rescue a large part of its treasures.Parts that were saved from the fire: The fundamental pieces of the Notre Dame treasure, which are the crown of thorns and the tunic of San Luis, they were rescued in time; as well as other reliquaries of great value such as one of the nails that served to fix Christ or a fragment of the Cross of Calvary.
The biochemical analysis of human remains has become a central aspect in the knowledge of the populations of the past. The study of the mobility of populations, their genetic affinities or their diet have found one of their main sources of information in ancient DNA and stable isotope analyzes.
Archaeologists from the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) have confirmed that the remains of a shipwreck found in the sunken city of Thonis Heraklion, in Egypt, correspond to a record made by the Greek historian Herodotus about the presence of a cargo ship 2,500 ago The existence of these types of ships was in doubt due to the lack of archaeological evidence.
The Nuevo Baztán Historical Heritage Association (Madrid) announces the eighth edition of the "Juan de Goyeneche Prize for Historical Research", which rewards 2,000 euros for the best work on the figure, life and work of this 18th century man. Works can be sent until September 30 of this year to the association itself and must be unpublished, written in Spanish and have an extension of between 50 and 75 pages.
Although at first it seems just a simple - but annoying - diarrhea, dysentery can reach such an intensity that it ends the lives of its patients. Until the 20th century, it had a history of deaths worthy of the most lethal diseases. It had claimed - among many others - the lives of the British kings John Landless and Henry V, the Mongol emperor Akbar the Great and the privateer Francis Drake.
Friedrich Gottlob Koening was a German inventor famous for being the creator, together with Andreas Bauer, of the high speed steam printing press. This innovation was the greatest evolution of the printing press since Gutenberg, making it on an industrial scale by allowing printing up to 1,100 sheets per two-sided hour.
The ancient city of Odeso is present-day Varna, in Bulgaria, and was founded by the Greeks of Miletus between the end of the 7th century BC, and the beginning of the 6th century BC History of Odeso Throughout its history it has suffered constant attacks from the peoples of Thrace until which was destroyed by the Getas, the Thracian tribe that lived along the Danube in Bulgaria, to later be conquered by Rome, integrating it into the empire in the province of Moesia.
The new exhibition at the Prado Museum aims to evoke, until November 24, one of the most unique spaces of the Museum during its two centuries of history: The Rest Cabinet of their Majesties. Room 39 of the Villanueva building once again brings together the Most of the paintings that hung in it from 1828, 44 paintings in total, and the small adjoining room, which was set up as a place for personal hygiene, offers the unrepeatable opportunity to return the toilet cabinet, made in 1830 by Angel Maeso, to its original location.
The 15,600-year-old footprint discovered in southern Chile is the oldest human footprint in the Americas, according to the researchers in a study recently published in the scientific journal PLOS One. Found in 2010 by a student at the Universidad Austral de Chile, Scientists worked for years to rule out the possibility that the footprint could have belonged to other species, and to determine the estimated age of the fossil.
The site of El Salt, one of the most important Neanderthal archaeological sites in the Western Mediterranean, has eleven well-preserved and overlapping open-air household structures. Until now, it was not clear whether these houses were formed during successive short-term occupations term, or in fewer occupations, but longer term.
The Celtiberians were a series of pre-Roman Celtic peoples, or Celts, who inhabited the area of the Iberian peninsula called Celtiberia from the Bronze Age (12th century BC) to the Romanization of Hispania, from the 2nd to 1st centuries BC. Up to now, they were arévacos, bellos, lusones, titos, and pelendones, although they are also sometimes made up of the folders, lobetanos, olcades and vacceos.
The origins of the tyrannosaurus are little known due to the lack of information due to a sampling gap associated with the high sea levels that existed during the Upper Cretaceous period (between 60 and 80 million years ago) in what is now North America However, researcher Sterling Nesbitt from Virginia Tech University (USA) and his team of paleontologists have found new data on its origin after discovering two skeletons of a new species of tyrannosauroid in the Zuni basin in New Mexico.
