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A for people who are interested in paleontology, archeology, and anthropology. Pseudoscience, ancient aliens, etc. discouraged.

A for people who are interested in paleontology, archeology, and anthropology. Pseudoscience, ancient aliens, etc. discouraged.

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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 15, 2019May 2019

Posted by AnonySchmoose
You have no idea where camels really come from | Latif Nasser "Camels are so well adapted to the desert that it's hard to imagine them living anywhere else. But what if we have them pegged all wrong? What if those big humps, feet and eyes were ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 19, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by Allamanda
on the beach!
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 23, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by t1nick
Fossils of baby herbivorous dinosaurs found in Australia. Pointing to the ability for dinosaurs to exist in cooler, circumpolar climes. Besides the adults were small enough to fit in your hand. How cute!!! Lol "scientists can’t be sure which ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 4, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by JoeB
Patterns of stone tool use among the earliest herders at Lake Turkana, northern Kenya. Past societies around the world repeatedly reconfigured their technologies to accommodate the challenges and opportunities of novel ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 16, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by EyesThatSmile
Wisconsin scorpion (only 430 million years old).
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 20, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by t1nick
Article discusses the phylogenetic relationship between modern day avians and their therapod (dinosaur) ancestors.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jan 23, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by JoeB
Fluctuations in mercury and organic carbon in the peatlands of southwest China before the End Permian Extinction. Carbon has two stable isotopes, carbon¹² and carbon¹³, of which plants preferentially incorporate ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Feb 10, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by Jnei
One of the largest and most mysterious bronze age hoards ever found in the UK contains objects that have astonished archaeologists, including items more commonly found in France and the Alps. The Museum of London on Monday revealed new finds among ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 12, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by Surfpirate
It's all about the pottery shards. lol
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Shared from General & Hellos
Mar 16, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by silverotter11
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 23, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by JoeB
Dynamosuchus collisensis: A new species of Ornithosuchid Pseudosuchian from the Late Triassic Santa Maria Formation of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The radiation of Pseudosuchian Archosaurs during the Triassic Period is ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Apr 4, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by Druvius
I just recently discovered that "The Time Team" is on Tubi. Free in other words. And very few commercials to boot. Lots of fun.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 24, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Looking for the origin of the Eukaryotes. The Eukaryotic cell is strikingly distinct from its much simpler Prokaryote relatives, possessing not only a nucleus, but also a complex cytoskeleton, a sophisticated ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 22, 2021May 2021

Posted by BirdMan1
California Find:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jul 31, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by JoeB
Searching for dental caries in South African fossil Hominins. Dental caries (the formation of cavities in teeth through decay of the enamel, through the activities of Bacteria) is common in many modern Human ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jul 17, 2021Jul 2021

Posted by JoeB
Trouble in Myanmar: The worrying case of Burmese Amber. Cretaceous ‘Burmese Amber’ has been extensively worked at several sites across northern Myanmar (though mostly in Kachin State) in the last 20 years. The amber...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jun 21, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by JoeB
Trying to explain the formation of the Ediacaran fossil Cloudina. Cloudina, and similar fossils such as Conotubus, Saarina, Multiconotubus, Costatubus, Zuunia, and Rajatubulus (collectively Cloudinomorphs) first ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Jun 2, 2021Jun 2021

Posted by JoeB
Was Stonehenge originally located at Waun Mawn in the Preseli Hills of Wales. Around 1036 AD, Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote that the stones of Stonehenge came originally from Giants’ Dance on the legendary Mount ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 20, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by Triphid
And just for laughs ( Yes I know this a serious group btw) a few pictures of Australia's Living and most useless Fossils. In order of de-Evolution of course, Malcom Turnbull, Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 20, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Gyaltsenglossus senis: A Hemichordate from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Hemichordate relationships remain contentious due to conflicting molecular results and the high degree of morphological disparity between the...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 6, 2021May 2021

Posted by AmmaRE007
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 14, 2021May 2021

Posted by JoeB
Dating efforts suggest Cerne Abbas Giant is Anglo Saxon in origin. Generations have speculated about the age and meaning of the club-brandishing giant hewn into a hillside in Dorset, England. Was he a depiction of the ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Mar 3, 2021Mar 2021

Posted by JoeB
Looking for evidence of a Martian origin of life. An origin of Earth life on Mars would resolve significant inconsistencies between the inferred history of life and Earth’s geologic history. Life as we know it ...
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Jan 4, 2021Jan 2021

Posted by Nessie_W
Like Pompeii, Herculaneum was a Roman city wiped out by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The story of its destruction is different, however. During the initial phase of eruption, winds carried ash and pumice over Pompeii for many hours, burying the...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 31, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Bushizheia yangi: A new species of Euarthropod from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte. Over 250 species have been recorded from the Cambrian Series 2, Stage 3 Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China, with ...
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Posted by JoeBKite-like structures in the western Sahara Desert.

Posted by TriphidAn Aussie Indigenous Message Stick.

Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.

Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.

Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.

Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.

Posted by JoeBDortoka vremiri: A new species of Dortokid Turtle from the Late Cretaceous of the Hațeg Basin, Romania.

Posted by JoeBThe Cabeço da Amoreira burial: An Early Modern Era West African buried in a Mesolithic shell midden in Portugal.

Posted by JoeBMusivavis amabilis: A new species of Enantiornithine Bird from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of northeastern China.

Posted by JoeBTorosaurus in Canada.

Posted by JoeBStone tools from the Borselan Rock Shelter, in the Binalud Mountains of northeastern Iran.

Posted by JoeBDating the Lantian Biota.

Posted by JoeBBashanosaurus primitivus: A new species of Stegosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Chongqing Municipality, China.

Posted by JoeBDetermining the time of year when the Chicxulub Impactor fell.

Posted by JoeBSão Tomé and Príncipe: Possibly the last country on Earth never to have been visited by a working archaeologist.

Posted by JoeBMambawakale ruhuhu: A new species of Pseudosuchian Archosaur from the Middle Triassic Manda Beds of Tanzania.

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