New research on the so-called Carnian Crisis by a team led by Alexander Lukeneder, paleontologist at the Natural History Museum Vienna, reveals astonishing developments surrounding global climate change during the Triassic period.
Mountains sure aren´t what they used to be. Take the Dolomites in the Veneto Region of Italy and Austria; 140 to 90 million years ago, they were part of the sea floor rather than mountains. Over millions of years, deposits were then formed from calcareous shells of marine life from the Mesozoic era.
A new study used tomography scanning to reveal a hidden secret in the iconic Venus of Willendorf statue, which finally proved the strange limestone was Italian.
The Venus of Willendorf, one of the world’s oldest pieces of artwork, was made of rock mined in Italy, more than 600 kilometres from her final resting place