Paleontology

[metalman]

Largest 'Sea Dragon' Fossil Accidentally Discovered in Museum

 

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cave lion head sculpted in woolly mammoth ivory with simple flint tools 35,000 years ago.
Found Vogelherd Cave, Germany

 

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40,000 year old hedgehog carved in mammoth ivory from the Vogelherd Cave in SW Germany

 

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How the Mediterranean was refilled

 

[Robert]

New evidence would push life back to at least 3.95 billion years ago

 

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gompotheres


Domestication Saved Pumpkins And Squash From Extinction

 

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Evolution of Dog Breeds

 

[Robert]

Not strictly Paleontology but I though this the most appropriate thread:
Archaeologists find mysterious, 4,000-year-old dog sacrifices in Russia
Ancient structure full of charred dog bones points to a ritual related to werewolf myths.

 

[metalman]

9,000-Year-Old Bison Mummy Found

 

[Robert]

This strikes me as quite a big deal:
Humans expanded out of Africa 40,000 years earlier than we thought
The discovery sheds new light on the timing of early human migration.

 

[Kesa]

This strikes me as quite a big deal:
Humans expanded out of Africa 40,000 years earlier than we thought
The discovery sheds new light on the timing of early human migration.

I guess it depends on how you look at it. Do you believe all modern Humans are descendants of a single migration or do you think it happened at many different points in time? The answer is nobody knows.

 

[Robert]

I guess it depends on how you look at it. Do you believe all modern Humans are descendants of a single migration or do you think it happened at many different points in time? The answer is nobody knows.

The reason it strikes me as a big deal is it puts the predicted timeline for human evolution back a bit.

 

[Robert]

Ancient tools found in India undermine the “out of Africa” hypothesis
385,000-year-old evidence for much earlier meetings between African and Indian hominins.

 

[Robert]

Debate heats up over whether 130,000-year-old bones were broken by humans
Archaeologists debate what these mastodon bones mean for human prehistory.

 

[Robert]

DNA from the poop of extinct four-meter-tall birds reveals lost ecosystem
Ancient bird poop is surprisingly good at giving answers.

 

[metalman]

Did Neanderthals' poor art ability contribute to their extinction?

"Of neanderthal art, however, there is virtually no evidence, and what disputed examples there are mainly comprise rudimentary straight lines and no recognisable images."



Neanderthals were capable of making art

the new work "seems to remove any doubts" that Neanderthals were capable of symbolic or artistic expression

 

[metalman]

Truck Driver Drives Over Peru's 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Lines to Avoid a Road Toll

 

[Kesa]

Truck Driver Drives Over Peru's 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Lines to Avoid a Road Toll

Sounds like a typical driver anywhere putting themselves first before anything else

 

[Robert]

Ancient DNA rules out archeologists’ best bet for horse domestication
Ancient genome analysis leaves horse ancestry as one giant question mark