Paleo in the News

Taco-shaped arthropod fossils gives new insights into the history of the first mandibulates

Science Daily - Fossils - Tue, 07/23/2024 - 19:47
Palaeontologists are helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period. Fossils reveal Odaraia had mandibles. Palaeontologists are finally able to place it as belonging to the mandibulates, ending its long enigmatic classification among the arthropods since it was first discovered in the Burgess Shale over 100 years ago and revealing more about early evolution and diversification.
Categories: Fossils

Nanoscopic imaging aids in understanding protein, tissue preservation in ancient bones

Science Daily - Paleontology - Tue, 07/23/2024 - 11:35
A pilot study shows that nanoscopic 3-D imaging of ancient bone not only provides further insight into the changes soft tissues undergo during fossilization, it also has potential as a fast, practical way to determine which specimens are likely candidates for ancient DNA and protein sequence preservation.
Categories: Fossils

Nanoscopic imaging aids in understanding protein, tissue preservation in ancient bones

Science Daily - Fossils - Tue, 07/23/2024 - 11:35
A pilot study shows that nanoscopic 3-D imaging of ancient bone not only provides further insight into the changes soft tissues undergo during fossilization, it also has potential as a fast, practical way to determine which specimens are likely candidates for ancient DNA and protein sequence preservation.
Categories: Fossils

Ore-some: New date for Earth's largest iron deposits offers clues for future exploration

Science Daily - Paleontology - Mon, 07/22/2024 - 16:58
Research reveals that Earth's largest iron ore deposits -- in the Hamersley Province of Western Australia -- are about one billion years younger than previously believed, a discovery which could greatly boost the search for more of the resource.
Categories: Fossils

Ore-some: New date for Earth's largest iron deposits offers clues for future exploration

Science Daily - Fossils - Mon, 07/22/2024 - 16:58
Research reveals that Earth's largest iron ore deposits -- in the Hamersley Province of Western Australia -- are about one billion years younger than previously believed, a discovery which could greatly boost the search for more of the resource.
Categories: Fossils

Chimps respond to each other at a pace similar to human conversation

New Scientist - Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:00
Humans and chimpanzees both take part in rapid social exchanges, suggesting some foundational principles of language may have evolved earlier than previously thought
Categories: Fossils

New snake discovery rewrites history, points to North America's role in snake evolution

Science Daily - Paleontology - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 17:02
A new species of fossil snake unearthed in Wyoming is rewriting our understanding of snake evolution. The discovery, based on four remarkably well-preserved specimens found curled together in a burrow, reveals a new species named Hibernophis breithaupti. This snake lived in North America 34 million years ago and sheds light on the origin and diversification of boas and pythons.
Categories: Fossils

New snake discovery rewrites history, points to North America's role in snake evolution

Science Daily - Fossils - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 17:02
A new species of fossil snake unearthed in Wyoming is rewriting our understanding of snake evolution. The discovery, based on four remarkably well-preserved specimens found curled together in a burrow, reveals a new species named Hibernophis breithaupti. This snake lived in North America 34 million years ago and sheds light on the origin and diversification of boas and pythons.
Categories: Fossils

New species of Portuguese man o' war discovered in the Tasman Sea

New Scientist - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 01:00
Genetic analysis shows that there are four varieties of Portuguese man o’ war, or bluebottle, including an Antipodean species that has yet to be named
Categories: Fossils

Are animals conscious? We’re finally realising that many species are

New Scientist - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 04:00
Science is at last confirming what many people have long suspected - that mammals, birds and perhaps some invertebrates have elements of consciousness
Categories: Fossils

Watch bees defend their nest by slapping ants with their wings

New Scientist - Thu, 07/18/2024 - 03:00
When ants try to invade their nest, Japanese honeybees flutter their wings and tilt their bodies to beat away their enemies
Categories: Fossils

Evidence for butchery of giant armadillo-like mammals in Argentina 21,000 years ago

Science Daily - Paleontology - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 15:24
Cut marks on fossils could be evidence of humans exploiting large mammals in Argentina more than 20,000 years ago, according to a new study.
Categories: Fossils

Evidence for butchery of giant armadillo-like mammals in Argentina 21,000 years ago

Science Daily - Fossils - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 15:24
Cut marks on fossils could be evidence of humans exploiting large mammals in Argentina more than 20,000 years ago, according to a new study.
Categories: Fossils

Research tracks 66 million years of mammalian diversity

Science Daily - Paleontology - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 11:11
New research has examined the fossil record going back 66 million years and tracked changes to mammalian ecosystems and species diversity on the North American continent.
Categories: Fossils

Research tracks 66 million years of mammalian diversity

Science Daily - Dinosaurs - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 11:11
New research has examined the fossil record going back 66 million years and tracked changes to mammalian ecosystems and species diversity on the North American continent.
Categories: Fossils

Sea slugs discovered working together to hunt in packs

New Scientist - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 09:30
Hunting in packs seems like a complex social behaviour, but it isn't limited to large carnivores like wolves. A simple sea slug species teams up to swarm its venomous anemone prey as a group
Categories: Fossils

Ancient microbes offer clues to how complex life evolved

Science Daily - Fossils - Tue, 07/16/2024 - 11:27
Researchers have discovered that a single-celled organism, a close relative of animals, harbors the remnants of ancient giant viruses woven into its own genetic code. This finding sheds light on how complex organisms may have acquired some of their genes and highlights the dynamic interplay between viruses and their hosts.
Categories: Fossils

Insight into one of life's earliest ancestors revealed in new study

Science Daily - Paleontology - Fri, 07/12/2024 - 11:41
Researchers have shed light on Earth's earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already flourishing.
Categories: Fossils

Last common ancestor of all life emerged far earlier than thought

New Scientist - Fri, 07/12/2024 - 05:00
All life on Earth can trace its origin to LUCA, the last universal common ancestor – and now it seems this organism may have lived a few hundred million years after the planet formed
Categories: Fossils

Woolly mammoth DNA exceptionally preserved in freeze-dried 'jerky'

New Scientist - Thu, 07/11/2024 - 11:00
A complete genome has been extracted from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, which might bring us closer to resurrecting the species
Categories: Fossils

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