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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 27, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Mukupirna nambensis: A new species of Vombatiform Marsupial from the Oligocene of South Australia. The three living species of wombat (Vombatus ursinus, Lasiorhinus latifrons and Lasiorhinus krefftii; family Vombatidae)...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 24, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Investigating the evolutionary history of the Old World Porcupines using DNA from specimens from the Late Pleistocene of China. Hystricidae (the Old World porcupines), which includes three distinguishable genera ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 23, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Yaviichnus inyooensis: A new complex burrow system from the Oligocene of southern Mexico. The behavior of burrowing has probably been present in Mammals since their early origins. Soil provides physical protection; it ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 22, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Hystrix brevirostra: A new species of Porcupine from the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene of Gansu Province, China. Old World Porcupines, Hystrix spp., are some of the Old World largest Rodents ranging from Late Miocene to ...
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Nov 21, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Druvius
New find in Pompeii:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 21, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Huerzelerimys asiaticus: A new species of Murine Rodent from Gansu Province, China. Huerzelerimys is a genus of the Murinae lived in Eurasia in Late Miocene.The genus has been known in Europe for a long time, but only ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 20, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Ischyromys douglassi: Morphometric analysis of an anatomically protrogomorphous Rodent, and its implications for the evolution of the group. Several adaptations enable gnawing in Rodents. They possess a single pair of ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Nov 18, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Amzungu
LINKScientists Find Out Why the Terracotta Army's Weapons Were So Well Preserved
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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 15, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Catonyx tarijensis: Reconstruction of the cranial anatomy and palaeoneurology of a extinct Scelidotheriine Sloth from the Pleistocene of Bolivia. Sloths, Folivora, are today represented by only two genera, Bradypus and ...
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Nov 14, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Larimar
More sarcophagi found
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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 13, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Larimar
Pics of temple in Esna, Egypt
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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
Nov 10, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by JoeB
Vertebrate fossils from the Late Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica. The Southern Hemisphere biota has been profoundly influenced by Mesozoic-Cainozoic continental breakup and climatic change. Before its ...
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Shared from Academic (e.g., Science)
Nov 10, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Druvius
I missed this a few years ago. An unknown gibbon species was discovered in a tomb:
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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
Nov 8, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Druvius
Love it when we learn something new about Neanderthals, our lost cousins.They weaned their kids the same age as humans:
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 6, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Investigating tides as an environmental driver during the Fish-Tetrapod transition. Only once in Earth’s history did vertebrates make the transition from an aquatic to terrestrial environment; trackway evidence ...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 15, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by bobwjr
LINK66-Million-Year-Old “Deflated” Football-Sized Egg Discovered In Antarctica | IFLScience
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 14, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Deciphering ceramics manufacturing techniques from the medieval city of Qalhât, Oman. At the beginning of the first millennium AD, the Indian Ocean became a region of long-distance trade between the Middle East, India,...
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 10, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by mkeaman
Neanderthals - 176,000 years ago! Amazing.
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Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
Dec 10, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by JoeB
Determining the ownership of Human, Hominin, and Hominid remains from archeological and palaeontological sites. All humans can claim a common ancestral link to some Hominin and Hominid remains: this is one of the ...
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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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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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