JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia has declared major copper and gold finds in the Arabian Shield, a development that will support the nation's aim to diversify its economy and advance its aspirations for international mining. The findings were made public by the Saudi Arabian Mining Co., also known as Ma'aden, at the Future Minerals Forum 2025, which took place in Riyadh from January 14–16. With mineralization spreading deeper and in several directions from shallow depths of 20 to 200 meters, the discoveries include...
by University of Wisconsin-Madison More than 200 million years ago, dinosaurs first appeared on Earth. How and when did they spread? When faced with fractured fossil records, paleontologists have been debating that subject for decades. According to the conventional wisdom, reptiles first appeared on the southern half of the ancient supercontinent Pangea, known as Gondwana, millions of years ago. Later, they spread to the northern half, known as Laurasia. With evidence indicating the reptiles were prevalent in the northern hemisphe...
BUENOS AIRES: The oldest known tadpole, the larval stage of a giant frog species that coexisted with dinosaurs approximately 161 million years ago during the Jurassic Period, has been found by scientists in Argentina to have exceptionally preserved fossil remnants. The 16-centimeter-long fossil, according to the researchers, provides insight into the evolution of frogs and toads by demonstrating how little tadpoles have altered from their Jurassic ancestors. Although no older tadpole fossils have been discovered, the oldest known frog fossils are significantly older. The researchers claim that the specimen, which is from a previously identified species named Notobatrachus degiustoi, is so well preserved that it has remnants of various soft tissues that are often absent from fossils. For example, the fossil preserves the tadpole's eyes and nerves as black impressions in their anatomical positions. The fossil was discovered in 2020 while searching for dinosaur bones on a ranch in the...
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