The university is situated in the city of Poitiers, France. The university's establishment can be traced back to the efforts of Pope Eugene IV, who granted the university its charter in the 15th ...

What may be the earliest-known human ancestor, an ape-man called Sahelanthropus tchadensis who lived in Africa roughly 7 million years ago, walked upright for ...

Credit: Franck Guy/PALEVOPRIM/CNRS – University of Poitiers. A battered fossil leg bone discovered more than 20 years ago in Chad is finally making its scientific debut.

Researchers at the University of Montreal and the University of Poitiers conducted the chilling study, which aimed to track the potential benefits of daily full-body “cryostimulation.” ...

Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which are more than 500 million years old, were collected in the High Atlas ...

Abderrazak El Albani, a geologist at the University of Poitiers in France, led the dig that resulted in the discovery of the new fossils in the High Atlas Mountains in 2015.

1 At the PALEVOPRIM laboratory (CNRS / University of Poitiers).. 2 See these two articles:. A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa, Michel Brunet et al., Nature, 11 July 2002 ...