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Neanderthals inhabited diverse environments where plants played a central role
10+ hour, 53+ min ago (474+ words) According to a study carried out from the University of Murcia, the Neanderthals They lived in much more diverse environments, including temperate forests and Mediterranean landscapes. The plants were source of food, shelter and ecological stability. The study carried out…...
DinoCon banned all paleontologists named in the Epstein files
2+ week, 3+ day ago (298+ words) We consider it deplorable that some established paleontological organizations are not taking firm action, reads the statement from the paleontology convention, which justifies the decision with the safety of participants. The , a UK-based paleontology convention, has issued a statement regarding…...
New AI method helps identify which dinosaurs left which footprints
3+ week, 1+ day ago (340+ words) WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) " Footprints are "among the most common dinosaur fossils. Sometimes "scientists find a single, solitary footprint. Other times, they come across "a chaotic jumble of footsteps that resemble a dance floor, a kind of dinosaur disco. But identifying…...
Hallucigenia dinner discovered, one of the rarest (and most bizarre) animals in history
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (370+ words) It sucked and devoured dead bodies at the bottom of the sea. New analysis is of the same fossil around 500 million years old found in 1977. A marine fossil around 500 million years old could reveal what one of the most enigmatic…...
Large dinosaurs and mammoths were much slower than previously thought
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (606+ words) The enormous body mass of sauropods, mastodons and mammoths imposes limitations on bones, joints, available forces and physiology. According to the authors of a new study, for the largest sauropods, which weigh up to 50 tons, maximum speeds are around 10 km…...
The oldest species of Homo did not look human, new study reveals
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1008+ words) Gu'rin Nicolas, Cyste of Morales / Wikipedia Homo habilis skull (left), and forensic facial reconstruction by C'cero Moraes (right) O A handy mana species that is 2 million years old, is known mainly through teeth and jaw bones. The study of a…...
A headache for Darwin: the evolution clock moves bumpily
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (620+ words) A new study suggests that evolution progresses at different speeds, especially when a large group of organisms first emerges. The famous analogy, which we remember hearing from the astrophysicist Carl Sagantells us that, if the entire geological history of the…...
Could hominid fossil found in Morocco be the missing link in human evolution?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (589+ words) .P. Raynal / Casablanca Prehistory Program The mandible, or lower jaw, of a hominin specimen called ThI-GH-10717 during excavations at the Thomas Quarry in Morocco The hominid now found may not be the last common ancestor of modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans,…...
After all, a famous prehistoric sea monster wasn’t just limited to the oceans
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (303+ words) Y. Kobayashi et al. / Scientific Reports A new study indicates that these large marine predators were also capable of living in freshwater rivers. Os mosassaurosthe colossal marine reptiles that dominated the seas during the age of dinosaurs, were not confined to…...
The Portuguese dinosaur that lived in the Algarve 150 million years ago | By Paulo Freitas do Amaral
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (329+ words) Long before the beaches, golden cliffs and summers full of tourists, the Algarve was the scene of a discovery that today excites science: a new species of dinosaur identified in Portugal. This is not a common fossil nor a repeated…...