Remains of a woman from 800 years ago were found in a Wooden canoe

Remains of a woman from 800 years ago were found in a Wooden canoe Up to 1,000 years ago, mourners buried a young woman in a ceremonial canoe to represent her final journey into the land of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ in what is now Patagonia, a new study finds. The discovery reaffirms ethnographic and historical accounts …

A 193-million-year old nesting ground with more than 100 dinosaur eggs offers evidence they lived in herds

A 193-million-year-old nesting ground with more than 100 dinosaur eggs offers evidence they lived in herds A 193-million-year-old nesting ground containing more than 100 dinosaurs’ eggs is upending palaeontologists’ understanding of an early dinosaur species. Research published Thursday describes a collection of eggs and juvenile and adult skeletons from a dinosaur called Mussaurus patagonicus, which were …

Magellan’s Strange Encounter With the 10-Foot Giants of Patagonia

Magellan’s Strange Encounter With the 10-Foot Giants of Patagonia You may have heard of the mythical, gigantic former inhabitants who wandered the wastes of Patagonia… The vision of a faraway land, inhabited by towering giants, has captured an enchanted European imagination for many years. But was Patagonia really the home to these larger-than-life folk, or …

Dragon Of Death Flying Reptile Found. It Lived 86 Million Years Ago

“Dragon Of Death” Flying Reptile Found. It Lived 86 Million Years Ago The fossilised remains of a huge flying reptile dubbed the ‘Dragon of Death’ – which lived alongside the dinosaurs 86 million years ago – have been unearthed in Argentina. Measuring about 30ft (9m) long, it is the largest pterosaur discovered in South America and …

A Two-Headed Giant has been discovered in Patagonia

A Two-Headed Giant has been discovered in Patagonia Kap Dwa is a two-headed giant cryptid allegedly discovered by Spanish sailors off the coast of Argentina in the 17th century. The accounts of its capture vary, but afterwards, its mummified remains were brought to England, and in the 19th century if circulated between various circuses and …

193-million-year-old nesting ground with more than 100 dinosaur eggs offers evidence that they lived in herds

193-million-year-old nesting ground with more than 100 dinosaur eggs offers evidence that they lived in herds A 193-million-year-old nesting ground containing more than 100 dinosaurs eggs is upending paleontologists’ understanding of an early dinosaur species. Research published Thursday describes a collection of eggs and juvenile and adult skeletons from a dinosaur called Mussaurus patagonicus, which were …

Dinosaur fossils found in Argentina could belong to the largest creature ever to have walked the Earth

Dinosaur fossils found in Argentina could belong to the largest creature ever to have walked the Earth A team of researchers with Naturales y Museo, Universidad de Zaragoza and Universidad Nacional del Comahue has found evidence that suggests the remains of a dinosaur discovered in Argentina in 2012 may represent a creature that was the …

Giants and beings of unknown origin were recorded by the ancients

Giants and beings of unknown origin were recorded by the ancients Found in many regions of the world, cave paintings have been a valuable source of information for understanding the lifestyle and beliefs of early humans. Some depict scenarios that are fairly simple to understand, such as men hunting or entire families in a village. …

The first dinosaurs may have laid soft eggs without hard shells

The first dinosaurs may have laid soft eggs without hard shells The new finding forces scientists to rethink how dinosaur eggs evolved. The earliest dinosaur eggs were more like leathery turtle eggs than hard bird’s eggs. That’s the conclusion of a new study of fossilized dino embryos. A team of palaeontologists studied embryos from two types of …

Six thousand-year-old tombs found in northwest Argentina

Six thousand-year-old tombs found in northwest Argentina Radio Cadena Agramonte reports that 12 graves dated between 6,000 and 1,300 years ago were unearthed in northwestern Argentina by a team of researchers from the University of Buenos Aires–National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), during investigations over the past 15 years. According to the source, most …