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Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area
1+ hour ago (357+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn't look like the rocks she'd been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth…...
The evolution of choice and arguing about it
6+ hour, 24+ min ago (628+ words) When did our ability to communicate advance beyond grunting and gesturing? Clues to the genesis of our linguistic abilities may lie in extraordinary choices by ordinary hominins The question is when language emerged, evolving beyond animal modes of communication such…...
Dinosaurs, Meet Carl Sagan at the End of Oak Street
7+ hour, 15+ min ago (545+ words) This review by Bethel McGrew is republished from Science and Culture Today. The End of Oak Street, out digitally on September 15, should have been a box office hit on paper. Just look at the trailer. It’s an ’80s throwback movie! It…...
Giant Mastodon Tooth Unearthed Near San Francisco
13+ hour, 48+ min ago (266+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn't look like the rocks she'd been studying caught... Giant Mastodon Tooth Unearthed Near San Francisco Brigid Lynch was…...
She Was Looking for Frogs. Then She Stumbled Upon a 10,000-Year-Old Mastodon Mystery in a Creek
14+ hour, 2+ min ago (475+ words) A routine frog habitat survey in a California creek revealed a massive fossil hiding half beneath the water. “I keep joking it wasn’t hard to find,” Lynch, a geomorphologist at Balance Hydrologics, said Friday. “It was just sitting there in…...
136 long-clawed shrew skulls from Hokkaido showed the classic winter flattening of the braincase, and across the same series the snout enlarged in winter and shrank again in spring
20+ hour, 18+ min ago (595+ words) A museum series of Sorex unguiculatus from Tomakomai confirms Dehnel's winter braincase shrink in an Asian shrew, and adds a reverse pattern in the snout that the authors did not find in the jaw. By Natural History · Edited by Chris…...
Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area – WTOP News
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (357+ words) Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye. It turned out to be the fossilized tooth…...
Geologists Searching for Copper in China Drilled 1,500 Feet Underground and Found a 115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Instead
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (452+ words) A routine mining survey in China turned into something no one on the team was prepared for: a dinosaur fossil that had been hiding underground for 115 million years. What they found next left even the experts divided. A copper mineral…...
Modern humans interbred with Neanderthals before they disappeared, and most people of non-African ancestry still carry roughly 1 to 4 percent Neanderthal DNA today — meaning part of the human population we once thought we simply replaced never actually vanished
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (104+ words) The fossil record suggested modern humans simply wiped out their evolutionary cousins, but genetic evidence now reveals a messier, more intimate history of coexistence and interbreeding....
Ancient Fossil Carpel-Like Organs Push Back Flowering Plant Origins
2+ day, 27+ min ago (83+ words) Bioengineer.org For now, the specimen rests in the type collection under catalogue number PB206132, available for scrutiny by other researchers. The open-access publication ensures that the images and reconstructions can be independently assessed, an important step given how consequential the…...