Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions,…
Category: Paleontology
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A 540-million-year-old fossil is rewriting evolution
Recently, Halloween may have brought thoughts of skeletons, but the true “skeleton age” began long ago during the early Cambrian Period, roughly 538 to 506 million years ago.
During this transformative era, many of Earth’s major animal groups…
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Reproductive biology and anatomy of ammonites
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AI revives lost 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn
A long-lost hymn of praise dating back to around 1000 BCE has been identified through modern technology. Professor Enrique Jiménez of LMU uncovered the text and linked it to 30 additional manuscripts using artificial intelligence.
Working in…
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Earliest long-necked sauropterygian Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis and plasticity of vertebral evolution in sauropterygian marine reptiles
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Archaeologists may have finally solved Peru’s strange “Band of Holes” mystery
- In southern Peru’s Pisco Valley, Monte Sierpe — also known as the “Band of Holes” — features thousands of perfectly aligned circular pits whose true purpose has long puzzled scientists.
- New research combining microbotanical analysis and…
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U-Pb calcite age dating of fossil eggshell as an accurate deep time geochronometer
Husson, J. M. & Peters, S. E. Nature of the sedimentary rock record and its implications for Earth system evolution. Emerg. Top. Life Sci. 2, 125–136 (2018).
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More model organisms are needed to understand the evolution of animal morphology and function
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Author Correction: The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate…
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What causes the rainbow shimmer of ammolite gems?
The jewels nabbed in the Louvre heist may still be at large, but scientists have just closed the case on another gemstone mystery: what gives rare ammolite gems their rainbow shimmer.
Ammolite comes from the fossilized shells of
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