Michoacán Fossil Exhibit and German Ancient Wood Study Highlight Paleontology

A free public exhibition titled “Fósiles, ciencia y patrimonio” opened at the Museo de Historia Natural Manuel Martínez Solórzano in Michoacán, Mexico. The display, organized by the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH) and the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), showcases replicas of ice‑age mammals, Pliocene and Pleistocene fossils, marine invertebrates and petrified Cretaceous wood. Mexico’s Secretary of Culture, Claudia Curiel de Icaza, said the collaboration “links national research with local knowledge so that paleontological heritage moves from the laboratory to the public.”

Separately, researchers from the University of Münster in Germany published a study in *Scientific Reports* describing fossilized wood from the Kyffhäuser hills that records up to 300 million years of Earth’s geological history. The analysis revealed changes in burial depth, temperature and tectonic activity, providing a rare high‑resolution climate and tectonic archive for the region that was once near the equator during the time of Pangaea.