ICP News
A journey back in time to discover the exceptional geological heritage of the Pyrenees
30 Apr 2024
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The University of Barcelona (UB) leads the VIGEOCULT project, in collaboration with the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), the association Geoparc Orígens, and the company Recursiva, SL. Supported by NextGeneration funds from the European Union, this project aims to create a natural and open museum that utilizes virtual…
How smart and behaviourally complex was Tyrannosaurus rex? An international team of paleontologists, behavioral scientists and neurologists reexamined brain size and structure in dinosaurs including the iconic T. rex. The research concludes that T. rex was ‘reptile smart’, and not as smart as a monkey as recently claimed in other…
A new study featured in Nature Communications by an international team led by researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA) has reconstructed the closest kinship relationships of the Miocene small-bodied primate Pliobates. Initially thought to be a basal ape preceding the divergence between lesser and great apes,…
The innovation plan in social sciences and humanities kicks off with a visit to Leiden University
01 Mar 2024
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The plan, aimed at seven CERCA centers, proposes to identify international challenges and best practices that advance innovation in their research fields.
Tomàs Marquès i Bonet, a researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) and Leader of Paleogenomics & Paleoproteomics Research Group, has been awarded the prize Ciutat de Barcelona in the Life Sciences category. The award is a recognition of excellence and international projection in creation and scientific research in…
A study led by researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) suggests that the high diversity and abundance of carnivorous dinosaurs, specifically spinosaurs and carcharodontosaurs, prevented the presence of tyrannosauroids during the Early Cretaceous in the Iberian Peninsula. The research has recently been published in the journal…
A research team the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, and the Swedish Museum of Natural History has studied the paleobiodiversity of salamanders, newts, frogs, and toads during the middle Miocene and late Pliocene in Hambach (Germany). The high diversity of amphibians in both periods suggests…
A study analyzes shoulder morphology and its implications in primate locomotion
12 Dec 2023
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A research team of the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), a research center affiliated to the UAB, in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine of the Universitat de Barcelona has carried out a study published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology in which a leading technique is…
Researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, the Museu de la Conca Dellà, and the Fundación Dinópolis have described the most complete dentition of a titanosaur found in Europe, from fossil remains discovered at the Els Nerets site (Pallars Jussà, Catalonia). These belong to one of the last…
During the Jurassic and Cretaceous (between 201 and 66 million years ago) the current Iberian Peninsula was a large island within the Tethys Sea. This tropical sea, precursor of today's Mediterranean, was dotted with numerous islands, forming a large archipelago in its central area. A research team have analysed how…
