Quaternary Paleoecology
Quaternary paleoecology news, blogs, and links. Paleoecology uses information from fossils or subfossils to reconstruct the ecosystems of the past. Most paleoecological studies focus on the Quaternary period (the last 2 million years... [more]
Quaternary paleoecology news, blogs, and links. Paleoecology uses information from fossils or subfossils to reconstruct the ecosystems of the past. Most paleoecological studies focus on the Quaternary period (the last 2 million years) because of the robust fossil record from this period.
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Further evidence of tundra climate near South Pole millions of years ago.
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Antarctica's now-barren valleys were once teeming with life, new fossils show.
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POCATELLO - Kids got their hands dirty at the Pocatello Zoo today digging up the fossils of animals that lived in Idaho thousands of years ago.
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Paleozoic.org is the place where professionals, amateurs, and enthusiasts trade news, information, and fossils. We are home to The Paleolist
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SCIENTISTS in Panama have unearthed hundreds of animal fossils (picture) dating back 20 million years, which could shed more light on how and when the American continent became connected.
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Three years ago, a team of scientists rocked the paleontology world by reporting that they'd recovered flexible tissue resembling blood vessels from a 68-million-year-old dinosaur fossil... Subsequent analyses ...
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- Scientists question dinosaur soft tissue find (reuters.com)
- PALEONTOLOGY: Is Dinosaur 'Soft Tissue' Really Slime? (sciencemag.org)
- Doubt cast on discovery of dinosaur soft tissue (moreover.com)
When most people hear the word fossil , they think of dinosaur bones, petrified wood or the shells of clams, corals and snails common in the rocks around Columbus. Those are examples of what paleontologists call "body fossils," or the preserved parts of prehistoric organisms.
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A study of marine fossils also showed that what is now the Mediterranean region and an area off the Middle East were previous "hotspots" -- seas with the highest numbers of marine species -- in the past 50 ...
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hominin fossils are the most important materials to explore human origins and evolution. Since most hominin fossils are incomplete, or filled with a heavy calcified matrix, it is difficult or often impossible to reconstruct the endocast in a real fossil without destroying it.
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