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Category: Paleontology
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Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas
D’Emic, M. D. The evolution of maximum terrestrial body mass in sauropod dinosaurs. Curr. Biol. 33, R349–R350 (2023).
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Mateus, O. Late Jurassic dinosaurs from the Morrison…
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Butchery clues reveal Neanderthals may have had “family recipes”
A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveals that Neanderthals living in two nearby caves in northern Israel — butchered their food in noticeably different ways. Despite using the same tools and hunting the same prey, groups in…
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How an ancient marine predator snuck up on its prey
A past predator of the seas may have had a secret weapon: noise-cancelling flippers that helped it sneak up on prey.
Scientists analyzed a fossilized impression of a front flipper ascribed to the large marine reptile…
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Ichthyosaurs were silent assassins of Jurassic seas
More than 180 million years ago, ichthyosaurs ruled the early Jurassic oceans. The…
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Scholars just solved a 130-year literary mystery—and it all hinged on one word
A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge scholars now believe the Song of Wade, a long lost treasure of English culture, was a chivalric romance not a…
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Adaptations for stealth in the wing-like flippers of a large ichthyosaur
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Initial efforts to re-assemble and mechanically prepare SSN8DOR11 were made at the time of its discovery in 2009. However, an investigative computed tomography (CT) scan in 2021 revealed the presence of additional bones that…
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3.25-Million-Year-Old Fossil Identified as New Mole Species
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of mole (family Talpidae) from a partial skeleton discovered at the Pliocene-aged site of Camp dels Ninots in Girona, Spain.
Life reconstruction of Vulcanoscaptor ninoti. Image credit:…
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Enhanced ventilation of Eastern North Atlantic Oxygen Minimum Zone with deglacial slowdown of Meridional Overturning
Wyrtki, K. The oxygen minima in relation to ocean circulation. Deep Sea Res. Oceanogr. Abstr. 9, 11–23 (1962).
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Bruno, J. F. et al. Climate change threatens the world’s…
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Savanna ecosystems and mammalian adaptations in Mid-Miocene Northern China
δ13C and δ18O of tooth enamel of various mammals from Junggar Basin and Tongxin region, northern China
The mean δ13Cenamel value (± standard deviation [SD]) for all Junggar Basin mammals, irrespective of taxon or level, is −9.1‰ ±…
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