Two articles published in the journal “PLOS ONE” describe two research on Pleistocene hominin teeth conducted by two teams with various researchers in common. A team led by Laura Martín-Francés of the French University of Bordeaux discovered various characteristics of Neanderthal teeth in the molars of a previous species named Homo antecessor from the Early Pleistocene. A team led by Clément Zanolli of the French University of Toulouse III Paul Sabatier examined the oldest dental remains discovered in Italy with an age estimated at about 450,000 years ago, concluding that they were similar to those of Neanderthals and distinct from those of modern humans.

An article published in the journal “Current Biology” describes the discovery of a new giant dinosaur species in South Africa. Named Ledumahadi mafube by the team that examined it, led by Professor Jonah Choiniere, it was an herbivorous sauropod that had an estimated weight of around 12 tons for a height estimated at about four meters at its hips. In the Early Jurassic period in which it lived it was the largest land animal in the world.