The precious native ornament woven from natural fibers and covered with thousands of red ibis feathers, will leave the Scandinavian kingdom s National Museum in 2024 to join the collections of the one located in Rio de Janeiro.
After years of negotiations in almost three decades since it was smuggled from Brazil to Germany, the fossil of the Ubirajara jubatus was returned to Brazil. The specimen of a dinosaur ancestor of birds, which lived some 110 million years ago, is the first of its kind found in Latin America and the oldest in the Araripe basin, on the border between the states of Ceara, Piaui, and Pernambuco, in the Northeast. Irregularly removed from Brazil in the 1990s, the fossil was housed in the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, Germany, and returned to its origin on June 4. The chicken-sized, feather-covered fossil lies on two plates, positive and negative, one plate measuring 47 cm by 46 cm x 4 cm, weighing about 11.5 kg. The second plate measures 47 cm x 46 cm x 3 cm and weighs approximately 8 kg. To celebrate the repatriation of the fossil, Brazil's Ministry of Science and Technology, the government of Ceara, the Regional University of Cariri and representatives from the German gov
Paleontologists have found the fossilized remains of the largest pterosaur ever in Argentina, and this “Dragon of Death” was the size of a yellow school bus!
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For most Brazilians taking a bachelor’s or diploma course, getting a certificate for a course or attending a scientific congress seems trivial, but for the transpopulation active in Brazilian science, the law can be humiliating.
This is because although many of the registration and registration systems, even though they use the social name in their personal and professional circles, still ask for the civil registration name with no option to change.
The law contradicts the decision approved by the Ministry of Education in 2018 authorizing the use of the social name in enrollment in educational institutions in the country while the person awaits the name correction.