Living longer: What do you think about the longevity trend?
The longevity market is booming thanks in part to advances in the science of ageing. What do you think of the idea of significantly extending human lifespan?
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Triassic park: oldest Swiss dinosaur skeleton found
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“This herbivore lived 210 million years ago and was discovered in the Upper Triassic geologic layer,” said Ben Pabst, who has been leader of the dig in Frick, canton Aargau, since 1976. The dinosaur’s head has yet to be found. Plateosaurus was a bipedal herbivore with a small skull on a long, mobile neck, sharp…
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The dinosaur, newly named “small Diplodocus of Siber“ or Kaatedocus siberi, is a member of the long-necked, plant-eating sauropod family. Other well-known sauropods include the brachiosaurus and the apatosaurus, once known as the brontosaurus. With 14 perfectly preserved vertebrae, the new specimen’s neck is reportedly the most intact of its kind in the world and…
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The prints, which were made as the dinosaurs crossed a Jurassic beach over 150 million years ago, were found in the path of a planned motorway. “This is one of the most, if not the most, important track sites in the world,” said Wolfgang Hug, head of canton Jura’s palaeontology section. The footprints first came…
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