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.” ...

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 ...

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.

The newly identified trilobite Protolenus is seen in a 3D model reconstruction by study coauthor Arnaud Mazurier, a researcher at the University of Poitiers in France. Arnaud Mazurier/Université ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Shape measurements, including curvature of the fossil’s shaft, closely resemble those of modern chimps’ upper leg bones, University of Poitiers paleoanthropologist Roberto Macchiarelli and ...

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 ...

Professor Abderrazak El Albani, a geologist based at University of Poitiers, in France, said: “As a scientist who has worked on fossils from different ages and locations, discovering fossils in ...

The pristine fossils, which date to the Cambrian period (541 million to 485 million years ago), were found in 2015 entombed under layers of volcanic ash from the Cambrian Tatelt Formation in Morocco.

According to the scientists, the femur comparisons suggest that S. tchadensis moved around on two feet, not only on the ground but also in the treetops of Western Africa. Moreover, the comparisons of ...