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Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paleontology. Show all posts
Monday, June 8, 2026

End-Cretaceous Plankton Survival Traits

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Plankton species diversity Photo Credit:  Christian Sardet/CNRS/Tara expeditions ( CC BY 4.0 ) Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Gla...
Saturday, June 6, 2026

Cambrian Fossils Reveal Bryozoa Origins

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The newly discovered bryozoans were only a few millimetres in size and lived attached to the seabed in shallow tropical seas. The image is a...
Thursday, June 4, 2026

Ancient DNA Reveals Cave Lion Evolutionary Lineage

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Photo Credit: Courtesy of Cardiff University Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Evolutionary History of the Ex...
Wednesday, June 3, 2026

World's Largest Prehistoric Scorpion Revealed

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Life reconstruction of Praearcturus gigas Image Credit: © Franz Anthony Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Pra...
Thursday, May 28, 2026

Why Small Plankton Survived the K-Pg Extinction

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Study lead author Dr Rui Ying showing an example of the Cretaceous paleogeography/bathymetry model in the paper. On the right is the simulat...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Benthic Origins of Early Eukaryotes

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Early Eukaryotes Restricted to Oxygenated Seafloors 1.7 Billion Years Ago Photo Credit:  Sachin Amjhad Scientific Frontline: Extended "...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

Andes volcanoes – the missing link between algae blooms, whales and climate millions of years ago

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Researchers work in the field at Cerro Ballena near Caldera, Chile, as part of a study showing that an increase in volcanic activity in the ...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Palaeontologists Discover New Long-Necked Dinosaur in Patagonia

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Bicharracosaurus vertebrae being prepared at the Egidio Feruglio Paleontological Museum in Trelew, Argentina Photo Credit: © Amalia Villafañ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Plague outbreaks in the Early Modern period hit working youths the hardest

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During excavations beneath Basel’s Stadtcasino, several graves were uncovered. Multiple skeletons were found stacked on top of each other wi...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

Early humans in South Africa were quarrying stone as long as 220,000 years ago

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Panoramic view of the Jojosi site. Clearly visible are gullies formed by erosion, where stone artifacts were observed on the surface during ...
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...