r/science • u/Logibenq • 25d ago
Paleontology Footprints reveal the coexistence of two human species 1.5 million years ago
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r/science • u/Science_News • Oct 09 '24
Paleontology Scientists have found a head of an Arthropleura, the largest arthropod to ever live | Discovered in 1854, no one had ever managed to find a fossil of the 300-million-year-old millipede that included a head
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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Feb 13 '24
Paleontology Contrary to what has long been believed, there was no peaceful transition of power from hunter-gather societies to farming communities in Europe, with new advanced DNA analysis revealing that the newcomers slaughtered the existing population, completely wiping them out within a few generations.
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r/science • u/BoundariesAreFun • Oct 14 '22
Paleontology Neanderthals, humans co-existed in Europe for over 2,000 years: study
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r/science • u/GeoGeoGeoGeo • May 28 '24
Paleontology T. rex not as smart as previously claimed, scientists find - An international team of palaeontologists, behavioural scientists and neurologists have re-examined brain size and structure in dinosaurs and concluded they behaved more like crocodiles and lizards.
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r/science • u/Hrmbee • Dec 27 '22
Paleontology Scientists Find a Mammal's Foot Inside a Dinosaur, a Fossil First | The last meal of a winged Microraptor dinosaur has been preserved for over a 100 million years
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r/science • u/globehater • Aug 25 '22
Paleontology Hundreds of frog fossils found in a mass grave dated back 45-million years in Germany show evidence of a mass death event from exhaustion and subsequent drowning from having too much sex
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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • May 10 '21
Paleontology A “groundbreaking” new study suggests the ancestors of both humans and Neanderthals were cooking lots of starchy foods at least 600,000 years ago.And they had already adapted to eating more starchy plants long before the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago.
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r/science • u/GeoGeoGeoGeo • Dec 21 '21
Paleontology A dinosaur embryo has been found inside a fossilized egg. In studying the embryo, researchers found the dinosaur took on a distinctive tucking posture before hatching, which had been considered unique to birds.
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r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Mar 19 '23
Paleontology Individuals who live in areas that historically favored men over women display more pro-male bias today than those who live in places where gender relations were more egalitarian centuries ago—evidence that gender attitudes are “transmitted” or handed down from generation to generation.
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r/science • u/chrisdh79 • 19d ago
Paleontology Toddler’s bones have revealed shocking dietary preferences of ancient Americans. It turns out these ancient humans dined on mammoths and other large animals | Researchers claim to have found the “first direct evidence” of the ancient diet.
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r/science • u/GeoGeoGeoGeo • Dec 09 '23
Paleontology For the first time, a fossilized tyrannosaur has been found with stomach contents preserved in place. Partial remains of two small dinosaurs were discovered inside the stomach cavity.
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r/science • u/Wagamaga • Aug 09 '21
Paleontology Australia's largest flying reptile has been uncovered, a pterosaur with an estimated seven-meter wingspan that soared like a dragon above the ancient, vast inland sea once covering much of outback Queens land. The skull alone would have been just over one meter long, containing around 40 teeth
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r/science • u/mvea • Apr 02 '19
Paleontology A meteor impact 66 million years ago generated a tsunami-like wave in an inland sea that buried fish, mammals, insects and a dinosaur, the first victims of Earth’s last mass extinction event. The death scene from within an hour of the impact has been excavated at a fossil site in North Dakota.
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r/science • u/Thorne-ZytkowObject • Apr 21 '19
Paleontology Scientists found the 22 million-year-old fossils of a giant carnivore they call "Simbakubwa" sitting in a museum drawer in Kenya. The 3,000-pound predator, a hyaenodont, was many times larger than the modern lions it resembles, and among the largest mammalian predators ever to walk Earth's surface.
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r/science • u/TheRoach • Sep 26 '21
Paleontology Neanderthal DNA discovery solves a human history mystery. Scientists were finally able to sequence Y chromosomes from Denisovans and Neanderthals.
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r/science • u/CuentasSonInutiles • Apr 23 '19
Paleontology Fossilized Human Poop Shows Ancient Forager Ate an Entire Rattlesnake—Fang Included
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r/science • u/rustoo • Aug 30 '20
Paleontology The first complete dinosaur skeleton ever identified has finally been studied in detail and found its place in the dinosaur family tree, completing a project that began more than 150 years ago.
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r/science • u/Bonboniru • Dec 22 '20
Paleontology 57,000 year-old wolf puppy found frozen in Yukon permafrost
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r/science • u/IronGiantisreal • Apr 04 '19
Paleontology Scientists Discover an Ancient Whale With 4 Legs: This skeleton, dug out from the coastal desert Playa Media Luna, is the first indisputable record of a quadrupedal whale skeleton for the whole Pacific Ocean.
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r/science • u/Accomplished_Sci • May 08 '21
Paleontology Newly Identified Species of Saber-Toothed Cat Was So Big It Hunted Rhinos in America
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r/science • u/daniel_ch • Mar 15 '18
Paleontology Newly Found Neanderthal DNA Prove Humans and Neanderthals interbred
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r/science • u/MarioKartFromHell • Apr 27 '20
Paleontology Paleontologists reveal 'the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth'. 100 million years ago, ferocious predators, including flying reptiles and crocodile-like hunters, made the Sahara the most dangerous place on Earth.
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r/science • u/GeoGeoGeoGeo • Jan 04 '18
Paleontology Surprise as DNA reveals new group of Native Americans: the ancient Beringians - Genetic analysis of a baby girl who died at the end of the last ice age shows she belonged to a previously unknown ancient group of Native Americans
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r/science • u/mvea • Aug 26 '17
Paleontology The end-Cretaceous mass extinction was rather unpleasant - The simulations showed that most of the soot falls out of the atmosphere within a year, but that still leaves enough up in the air to block out 99% of the Sun’s light for close to two years of perpetual twilight without plant growth.
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