This week, a team of researchers at the ICP has published in the prestigious 'Journal of Human Evolution’ an accurate reconstruction of the paleoenvironment where the fossil hominid Hispanopithecus laietanus, popularly known as Jordi, lived in. This research delves into the causes that led to the extinction of the hominids who inhabited Europe during the Miocene, between 15 and 9 million years ago. The fossil remains of this primate found in Catalonia are the latest known in Western Europe, and therefore are important for understanding the extinction of the European great apes in the Late Miocene.

The ICP was pleased to receive the visit of Lars van den Hoek Ostende, a Dutch researcher and one of the expert voices on fossil insectivores in Europe.  The reason for his visit was to work with Isaac Casanovas and Marc Furió, members of the research group of Neogene & Quaternary faunas, analyzing Miocene insectivores data to understand trends in diversity in Central Europe and Spain

Josep Fortuny leads a research published in the journal ‘Acta Palaeontologica Polonica’ describing a new genus and species of capitosaur. These fossils are the oldest remains of aamphibian in Catalonia. The research also proposes a new phylogeny for this group of extinct amphibians.