Paleontology

Police at Lesvos' airport on Tuesday detained a 57-year-old man after finding multiple fragments of a petrified forest in the island's west in his luggage.

Officers found five chunks and 15 fragments of fossilized wood in the man's possession. He now faces charges of violating the national customs code and forestry laws, and theft.

A team of experts hoists the petrified trunk of a 20-million-year-old tree on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, Friday.

A pair of human footprints from 7,500 years ago was found in the Aktopraklık mound where the 15th year of excavations have been completed.

AFP - A strange fossil that looks a bit like a giant leaf, or a fingerprint the size of a coffee table, has intrigued scientists for decades.

Thousands of the fossils have been found over the past seven decades, revealing that it lived at the bottom of the ocean, without a mouth, intestines or anus, half a billion years ago.

The earliest known footprints left by an animal on Earth, dating back at least 541 million years, have been uncovered in China, a study said June 7.

British paleontologists have discovered that the first terrestrial plants appeared on Earth about 500 million years ago, with over 100 million years earlier than previously thought. Their article is published in PNAS.

A primitive form of life existed on Earth 3,95 billion years ago when our planet was subjected to intense bombing of comets and asteroids, according to the results of a study quoted by France press.

Archaeologists in Argentina have announced the discovery of several dinosaur eggs - believed to be nearly 70 million years old and with the remainders of its embryos.

Human beings have been migrating since the dawn of time. Be it in search of food, more hospitable environments, to escape wars or conflicts, people have always been on the move. It is very difficult to know what happened on earth thousands of years before anyone started recording history in any way.

Excavations by researchers at the Natural History Museum for the Lesvos Petrified Forest took place near road works for the construction of a new road from the towns of Kalloni to Sigrio on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos. The scientists responsible for preserving other sections of the ‘Petrified Forest’ found new traces of fossilized tree trunks.