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Stegosaurus meme | Paleontology
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Mummified reptile offers glimpse at how breathing began
3+ hour, 49+ min ago (669+ words) The 289-million-year-old reptile, Captorhinus, in its death pose in a cave system. The fossil of the reptile, which was discovered in a cave system near Richards Spur, Okla. , is unusual because some of its soft tissue was preserved in a…...
Permian Fossil is Earliest Evidence of Rib-Powered Breathing
4+ hour, 19+ min ago (470+ words) Paleontologists have examined 289-million-year-old specimens of the early reptile Captorhinus aguti that preserve a covering of three-dimensional skin, a complete shoulder girdle and ribcage with cartilages, and " most astonishingly " protein remnants that predate the previous oldest-known example by nearly 100 million…...
Fossil Turns Out to Be a Different Animal, Rewriting Octopus History
5+ hour, 1+ min ago (548+ words) Bassyonni 8 Apr 2026 For 26 years, a fossil from Illinois carried a reputation far larger than the rock that held it. Now, a fresh look inside the fossil has changed that story: the specimen once celebrated as the world's oldest octopus is…...
300 Million-Year-Old Fossil Thought to Be World's Oldest Octopus Turns Out to Be a Completely Different Species
6+ hour, 8+ min ago (314+ words) A new study reveals that the fossil once thought to be the world's oldest octopus is, in fact, a distant relative of the nautilus, reshaping our understanding of cephalopod evolution. Recent use of synchrotron imaging, a high-tech method that uses…...
Ancient "octopus" fossil is actually a different species
10+ hour, 34+ min ago (750+ words) Morristown West 15, Portland 9 This year's Fourth of July celebration at Cherokee Park is going to have a bit more twang than usual. More than 250 people showed up to meet county candidates in the upcoming primary election in Hamblen County. Billie…...
Popular Archeology - Neanderthals in Central Europe hunted pond turtles
7+ hour, 39+ min ago (352+ words) Neanderthals in Central Europe hunted pond turtles'Popular Archeology Shells of captured reptiles may have been used as ladles. The researchers examined turtle shell fragments approximately 125, 000 years old, discovered at the world-renowned Palaeolithic site of Neumark-Nord in what is today Saxony-Anhalt....
Study suggests turtles were turned into tools by Neanderthals
6+ hour, 38+ min ago (369+ words) These findings come from an international research team led by Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser of the Institute for Ancient Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, in collaboration with researchers from the MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution (MONREPOS…...
Neanderthal children hunted pond turtles in Central Europe 125, 000 years ago, but not to eat them
17+ hour, 26+ min ago (504+ words) Our data provide the first evidence that Neanderthals also hunted and processed turtles north of the Alps, beyond the Mediterranean region, Gaudzinski-Windheuser explained in the statement released by the university. The significance of the discovery does not lie solely in…...
Neanderthals in Central Europe hunted pond turtles
5+ hour, 44+ min ago (653+ words) Neanderthals hunted European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) in Central Europe though probably not for food. The careful cleaning of carapace elements at Neumark-Nord indicates that shells were reused, perhaps as small containers or scoop-like implements. This is the finding reported…...