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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
Nov 13, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Bite marks on the tibia of a Giant Sloth from the Miocene of Peru. Following the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, the largest Cainozoic continental predator was neither a Mammal nor a Bird, but the Giant Caiman ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 2, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Using tarsal bones to understand Eocene Notoungulates. The South American Paleogene vertebrate record is plethoric of well-known Mammalian groups, which enclose several peculiar forms. Of these, the order Notoungulata ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 10, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Evidence for two separate dispersals of Neanderthals into southern Siberia The period of existence of Neanderthals, their geographical range, and the timing of their dispersal and extinction are key issues in the study ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 25, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by JoeB
Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis: A second species of Rhinoceros from the Pleistocene of Serbia. The Rhinocerotid fossil record of Serbia is generally poor and low in taxonomic diversity. A small number of specimens are ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 8, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Middle Stone Age tools from the Kerma are of northern Sudan. One of the primary regions for understanding the process of Anatomically Modern Human dispersal and migration is the Nile Valley and the coast of the Red Sea,...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 9, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by mkeaman
Denisovan (Neanderthal and modern man) DNA was distributed "widely" from Europe to Asia (as the evidence seems to be telling us.) And some of it seems to continue in part at present in some Asian and Oceanic locales.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 21, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by BirdMan1
"Caucasian?"
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 12, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
A Juvenile Glyptodont from the Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Glyptodonts, Cingulata, are known from the late Eocene to the early Holocene of South, Central, and North America. Their fossil record is represented ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Oct 6, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by JoeB
Martensius bromackerensis: A new species of Caseid Synapsid from the Early Permian of Germany. The Caseids were a group of Synapsids that appeared in the Late Carboniferous and persisted to the Middle Permian. Most are ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 18, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Panochthus sp.: Preserved tracheal rings in a Late Pleistocene Glyptodont Mammal from Argentina. The trachea of Mammals is a relatively flexible cartilaginous and membranous tube that extends from the cricoid cartilage ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 28, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Theresa_N
Turkey feather blankets.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 30, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Eomakhaira molossus: A new species of small saber-toothed Sparassodont Marsupial from the Early Oligocene of Chile. The Sparassodonta, an extinct group of Metatherians (Marsupials and their extinct relatives), were the ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Apr 22, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by t1nick
Not Paleontology or Archaeology, but Geology USGS releases first-ever comprehensive geologic map of the moon United States Geological Survey
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Apr 23, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by dede18
Very interesting New Seismic Map of North America
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Apr 25, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by t1nick
The first frog fossil from Antarctica has been found An ancient amphibian sheds light on when the continent iced over Seymour Island landscape A 40-million-year-old frog fossil from Seymour Island (pictured) near the Antarctic Peninsula is the ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 6, 2020May 2020

Posted by Allamanda
Flint-knappers etc. will be interested.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 11, 2020May 2020

Posted by Allamanda
Armadillos the size of VW Bugs!
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 15, 2020May 2020

Posted by t1nick
Paleontologists Find Strange Ball-Like Structures in 80-Million-Year-Old Fossils May 14, 2020 by Enrico de Lazaro A team of paleontologists from Australia and the UK has found fullerene-like structures in Cretaceous-period crinoids, marine animals...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 15, 2020May 2020

Posted by GrooshStar
Hello, I'm new to the group. Hope you all have a wonderful friday.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 16, 2020May 2020

Posted by t1nick
Archaeologists Uncover a Lost World and Extinct Ecosystem By Arizona State University on May 16, 2020 Glacial Period and Today Looking out at the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain from the cave entrance at the Pinnacle Point, South Africa, research site–left,...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 21, 2020May 2020

Posted by JoeB
'Reticulosa' sp: A Reticulosan Sponge from the Early Ordovician of Salta Province, northwestern Argentina. Reticulosan Sponges are a group of hexactine (six-rayed spicule) bearing early Sponges, that are considered ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 23, 2020May 2020

Posted by t1nick
Court rules “Dueling Dinos” belong to landowners, in a win for science By Warren CornwallMay. 22, 2020 , 7:45 PM A legal saga that threatened to upend fossil hunting in dinosaur-rich Montana has drawn to a close, and paleontologists are ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 23, 2020May 2020

Posted by theoldergent
I wish , would be around. When they are allowed,to open . That tomb in China, the first Emperor. The Teracota army Emperor.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 25, 2020May 2020

Posted by Allamanda
a strange quirk of evolution -
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
May 28, 2020May 2020

Posted by JoeB
Finding a connection between the formation of the oldest known Himalaya-style mega-mountains and the appearance of Metazoan Animals. It was extremely fortunate for the stability of life that despite the planet active ...
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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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