The pyramid-shaped, wooded mountain of Monte San Giorgio beside Lake Lugano is regarded as the best fossil record of marine life from the Triassic Period (245–230 million years ago). The sequence ...

Paleontologists have long known that the species once lived in Switzerland’s Monte San Giorgio basin during the Middle Triassic period (about 242 million years ago). They also knew the bizarre ...

The pyramid-shaped, wooded mountain of Monte San Giorgio beside Lake Lugano is regarded as the best fossil record of marine life from the Triassic Period (245 - 230 million years ago). The sequence ...

The ~242 million year old predatory fishes were found in the fossil Lagerstätte Monte San Giorgio, in Ticino. They are distinct from previously known Saurichthys species in the shape of the head ...

The Unesco World Heritage committee has given the green light to the plan to extend the Swiss Monte San Giorgio Unesco site into neighbouring Italy. Monte San Giorgio is regarded as the best place ...

The fossil itself was originally found in the Besano Formation—a geological formation in the southern Alps—at Monte San Giorgio, a mountain on the border between Italy and Switzerland.

Only in the 1930s, when more complete fossils emerged from the Monte San Giorgio in Switzerland, did scientists realize they were looking at neck vertebrae from a strange reptile whose way of life ...

Named Graziana quadrifoglio, the freshwater snail was discovered on Monte San Giorgio, close to the border with Italy. The snail gained its particularly musical name from the biologist who is ...