Debarati Basu, Makaut WB The complex organ of the human body that forms the Central Nervous System (CNS) of the human body is the brain. A study is suggestive of the evolutions of the brain that will help us in better understanding the brain. The study shows the reduction in brain size dating approximately 3,000 […]
Ananya Ghosal, MAKAUT (WB) A tardigrade is a distinct group that comes under microscopic invertebrates, that is best suited for extreme conditions. The fossil record of a tardigrade is extremely scattered despite their global distribution and evolutionary history in the terrestrial and aquatic environment. The differentiation of tardigrades from other panarthropod lineages was estimated by […]
Sneha Singhal, Jaypee Institute of information technology, Noida Arthropods and their fossils Among the most diverse and species-rich groups of animals are arthropods, which include crustaceans, insects, scorpions, spiders, millipedes, and centipedes, just to name a few. Researchers have long hypothesized that the archetypal brain shared by all arthropods comes from fossils preserved to extremely […]
Sribas Chowdhury, Adamas University, Kolkata Scientists Frank Krell and Francesco Vitali recently worked together and renamed the fossil of a frog-legged beetle. The beetle had been on showcase at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science since 1995. It is reported to have been in existence nearly 49 million years ago. The beetle was initially […]
Saakshi Bangera, DY Patil School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Microbial structures present on the bottom of the water body (stromatolites) provide obvious evidence of pre-Phanerozoic life. Since these structures are difficult to understand, scientists have struggled to decode their microscopic laminae and clots. The presence of trace fossils and a bilaterian body indicates the existence […]
Varuni Ankolekar, Clinical Data Manager at Quartesian A thrilling discovery by Martill and group has declared to have found the footprints of at least six distinct dinosaur species of the rearmost dinosaurs to walk on UK soil 110 million years ago in Kent. It was intriguing for them to find such an array of species […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata Two new species of Mammal-like burrowing animals have been discovered in Northeastern China. These animals lived around 120 million years ago, and though both are distantly related, they have independently evolved the traits for digging. Paleontologists call them the first “Scratch-diggers” of the ecosystem. Organisms live underground for a variety […]
PRIYANKA CHAKRABORTY, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA Scientists extracted remains from the Egg Mountain in Western Montana and studied the fossils of 22 individuals Filikomys primaeval (which translates to “youthful, friendly mouse”). The remains were about 75.5 million years old typically stuck together in groups of two to five, with at least 13 samples clustered within a […]
