. Scientific Frontline: Paleontology
Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Scientists uncover the secret behind perfectly 3D preserved ‘sea reptile’ fossils

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Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary : 3D Preservation of Marine Reptile Fossils Main Discovery : Anaerobic sulfur-cycling ...

Prehistoric fish: coelacanths heard underwater using their lungs

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3D rendering of the skeleton of Graulia branchiodonta. The auditory organ includes the bony wings (red) on the ossified lung (white) which t...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Genomic Sequencing Pushes Canine Domestication into the Late Upper Palaeolithic

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Earliest Genetic Evidence of Domestic Do...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

Neanderthals may have used birch tar for wound care

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Photo Credit: Tjaark Siemssen Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Neanderthal Use of Birch Tar for Wound Care T...
Monday, March 16, 2026

Hunted by Neanderthals: Giant Elephants traveled hundreds of Kilometers across Ice-Age Europe

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125,000 years ago, straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) populated the prehistoric Europe. Image Credit: Hodari Nundu ( CC-BY-4...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Arrival of Homo Erectus may have triggered Mosquitoes’ taste for human blood

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Mosquito Evolution and Early Hominins Th...

Black Death ‘Rewilding’ Did Not Boost Biodiversity

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As farmland was abandoned, traditional land management practices ceased and forests spread. Rather than driving an increase in plant biodive...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Rewilding could fill gap left by Panama's lost giants

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Lake La Yeguada. Photo Credit: Dunia Urrego Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary : Ecosystem Rewilding in Panama Main Disco...
Monday, March 2, 2026

‘Old Mother Goose’ adds to history of NZ birds

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A reconstruction of the St Bathans goose (Metechen luti). Artwork by Sasha Votyakova, © Te Papa (changes made: expanded the scene) ( CC BY 4...
Friday, February 20, 2026

‘Hell-heron’ dinosaur discovered in the central Sahara

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Spinosaurus mirabilis Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary : Hell-Heron D...
Monday, February 2, 2026

Brisbane dinosaur fossil is Australia’s oldest

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Professor Bruce Runnegar with the fossil he found almost 70 years ago. Photo Credit: The University of Queensland Scientific Frontline: ...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

Ancient DNA reveals 12,000-year-old case of rare genetic disease

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Daniel Fernandes preparing to take a sample Photo Credit: ©Adrian Daly Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary The Co...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Fossils show giant prehistoric kangaroos could still hop

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Sthenurine skeleton in the South Australian Museum.  Photo Credit: Megan Jones Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Di...
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Woolly rhino genes recovered from Ice Age wolf stomach

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The autopsy of the Tumat-1 wolf puppy, when a fragment of a woolly rhinoceros tissue was found in the stomach. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Car...
Friday, December 26, 2025

Paleontology: In-Depth Description

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated Paleontology is the scientific study of the history of life on Earth as based on fossils. ...
Saturday, December 20, 2025

What Is: The Phanerozoic Eon

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Defining the Eon of Complex Life Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated The Phanerozoic Eon constitutes the current and most biol...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Bear teeth break free – Researchers discover the origin of unusual bear dentition

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Lower jaw of a polar bear The polar bear has a second molar that is only slightly larger than the first. Although the polar bear is a carniv...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Australopithecus deyiremeda, an ancestor of the human species discovered in Ethiopia, was bipedal and climbed trees

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Professor Lluís Gibert, from the University of Barcelona, is the only expert from a European institution participating in an international s...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Looping long-necked dinosaur site reveals its secrets

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An aerial view of the loop section of the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite in Colorado. Photo Credit: Dr. Paul Murphey An analysis of a uni...
Monday, November 17, 2025

The world’s oldest RNA extracted from woolly mammoth

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“Such studies could fundamentally reshape our understanding of extinct megafauna as well as other species, revealing the many hidden layers ...