A team of paleontologists discovered multiple huge dinosaur footprints dating back to the Middle Jurassic - about 166 million years ago - in the Dewars Farm quarry, located in Oxfordshire (United Kingdom), according to a statement published this Thursday by the University of Birmingham, who directed the excavation work.
China, Jan 3. - Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot replace human decision-making on the battlefield, because AI does not assume responsibility for its actions, warns the Chinese Army.
There are around 250 sunken ships with treasures in the waters of the Azores archipelago, Madeira and the Portuguese continental coast, underwater archaeologist Alexandre Monteiro, who mapped 8,620 shipwrecks in these areas, told the local portal Observador.
National Geographic, Dec 30 - If someone asks us to classify a tiger or a lion, the vast majority of us will say that they are felines. However, from a strictly scientific point of view, they are not. Instead of felines, they should be classified as felids, which, in fact, is the family of carnivorous mammals to which they belong, which is distinguished mainly by the shape of the skull, its muscular body with flexible limbs and by the fact that they have retractable claws that they hide inside a kind of sheath, which allows them, among other aspects, to wear out less than other species.
China, Dec 28 - Chinese scientists have made an important discovery in the field of agriculture by developing a new method that significantly increases crop productivity when exposed to high temperatures.
A recent study revealed in 2024 that the ancient Neolithic monument of Stonehenge in the United Kingdom was built to unite ancient farming communities.
Washington, Dec 24 - This year is ending with a shower of stars and the next one will be marked by an interesting astronomical phenomenon: the alignment of six planets.
US, Dec 23 - Users are leaving the social network X in a kind of "digital exodus", long unhappy with the course taken by the platform since its owner, Elon Musk, took it over in 2022, and especially since he allied himself with former President Donald Trump, in the Republican's campaign in the last elections.
A group of paleontologists from Peru presented the fossil of a small marine crocodile found on the coast of the Andean country that is approximately 10 million years old.
USA, 20 Dec. - Sotheby’s house sold yesterday Wednesday for five million dollars the oldest known Ten Commandments tablet, a precious reflection of the beliefs that have shaped Western civilization that, However, it omits one of the principles that according to the book of Exodus God gave to Moses.
United Kingdom, Dec 18.- The prestigious English dictionary 'Oxford English Dictionary' has chosen the expression 'brain rot', which can be translated as 'mental rot' or 'brain putrefaction', as the concept that sums up the current year.
After 30 years stuck on the seabed north of the South Orkney Islands, the world's largest and oldest iceberg has broken off and is drifting through the Antarctic Ocean.