Were Ancient Wolves And Bronze Age Humans Each Other’s Friends?
"Wolf bones unearthed on a tiny island in the Baltic Sea were found to be thousands of years old, and bore multiple signs of living alongside ancient humans."
#Wolf #StoraKarlsö #Sweden #Anthropology #fossils #Ecology #Genomics #Domestication https://grrlscientist.medium.com/were-ancient-wolves-and-bronze-age-humans-each-others-friends-26a7e316d8bb
The global demand for dinosaur fossils is booming, with increasing interest from wealthy collectors across Asia. In 2024, a Stegosaurus skeleton was sold at an auction in New York for a record $44.6m.
Fossil hunters are raking in profits, while Asian buyers bond over their collections and see fossils as a way to educate the next generation about history.
Academics say the commercial fossil trade is unethical and harmful to science.
This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought second-hand copies of Animal Anomalies: What Abnormal Anatomies Reveal about Normal Development and The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, Volume 14: 1866, both from Cambridge University Press. I also adopted a damaged copy of the large-format English/German Elefantenreich: Eine Fossilwelt in Europa from Verlag Beier & Beran, which features some amazing fold-out plates. I hear it is basically out of print now.
#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Evolution #DevelopmentalBiology #EvoDevo #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Fossils #Mammoths #Paleontology #Palaeontology @bookstodon
Story of South African palaeontologist Lazarus Kgasi, and how his curiosity was stirred in digging up #fossils
Emily Keeble at Palaeocast has just produced a great interview about rhynchocephalians with Dr. Victor Beccari, a Brazilian paleontologist who works on them. The tuatara of Aotearoa / New Zealand is the only living rhynchocephalian, but they were much more diverse in the Mesozoic.
Second progress shot: I am delving deep into the upcoming Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Two down, and I have started the theropod volume today. Review coming soon...
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Fossils #Scicomm @princetonupress @princetonnature
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🦖🏴 Walking along #Scotland's Isle of Skye feels like visiting an outdoor museum where 170-million-year-old #dinosaur footprints are still being found.
Paleontologist Steve Brusatte and his students show how storms and waves continue to explain more of these ancient trackways today.
#animals #dinosaurs #fossils #jurassic #paleontology #research #rocks #science #uk
Calling all fossil enthusiasts!
Paleo 2026 invites poster submissions for the Paleo 2026 symposium on March 14. Whether you're a professional, a student just starting out, or an amateur with a fascinating find, we want to hear from you. All palaeontological topics are welcome.
Submit your poster by February 15 to posters@albertapaleo.org. Let's make this symposium a showcase of discovery from across our entire community!
Pictured is the Lower Cambrian Bristolia insolens—distinguished by the genal spines that emerge from its head. While specimens with disarticulated head shields are relatively common finds throughout the Western United States, complete examples are rare.
American Museum of Natural History
@AMNH #globalmuseum #fossils #trilobites
🦖🏴 Walking along #Scotland's Isle of Skye feels like visiting an outdoor museum where 170-million-year-old #dinosaur footprints are still being found.
Paleontologist Steve Brusatte and his students show how storms and waves continue to explain more of these ancient trackways today.
#animals #dinosaurs #fossils #jurassic #paleontology #research #rocks #science #uk
👁️👁️ More than 500 million years ago, some of the very first #vertebrates may have navigated the world with four eyes.
New #research suggests two of those eyes eventually evolved into the pineal gland – the part of our modern #brains that regulates #sleep.
#paleontology #evolution #fossils #biology #science #Smithsonian #history #nature #stem
Upcoming event - 2026 Global Coal Industry Expo
https://globaltribune.net/2026-global-coal-industry-expo
#china #exhibition #event #coal #energy #energyindustry #coalmining #coalindustry #expo #fair #fossils #fossilfuel
related XKCD: https://xkcd.com/3199/
The actual Nature paper (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-10030-0) is paywalled, but they posted this image to BSky.
source: https://bsky.app/profile/natureportfolio.nature.com/post/3mdlcg64rp22x
Wild, a rich Cambrian fossil bed has been discovered in China! Many of the species are related to those in the Burgess shale, but 60% are entirely new.
Summary, #GeoEngineering is a very bad idea, but, there is money to be made from screwing up the #climate
The world, the universe and us: Mini human brain grows blood vessels; The geoengineering risk of termination shock; Trove of ancient #fossils discovered
Episode webpage: https://www.newscientist.com/
In dino veritas. Guida ad una visione consapevole dei dinosauri - LIB-00022
Volume "In dino veritas". Guida ad una visione consapevole dei dinosauri
Marco Castiello, Marco Lampugnani, Stefano Broccoli
Curatore: G. Donati Editore: Rswitalia .com
Anno edizione: 2011
Pagine: 580 p., ill. , Rilegato
#fossili #paleontologia #collezione #collezioni #fossils #collection #museum #dinosauri #dinosaurs
Scritto con un linguaggio il più chiaro e preciso possibile, "In dino ver
https://geocollection.net/it/libri/520-in-dino-veritas-guida-ad-una-visione-consapevole-dei-dinosauri-9788890580208.html
A lost world: Ancient #cave reveals million-year-old wildlife https://phys.org/news/2026-01-lost-world-ancient-cave-reveals.html
The first Early #Pleistocene fossil terrestrial vertebrate fauna from a cave in #NewZealand reveals substantial avifaunal turnover in the last million years https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2025.2605684
"scientists unearthed the remains of ancient #wildlife in a cave near #Waitomo on #Aotearoa's North Island, the first time a large number of million-year-old #fossils have been found—including an ancestor of #Kākāpō"
Quick progress shot: I am delving deep into the upcoming Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. One down, and I'm partway into the second. Look out for an in-depth review in a few weeks...
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Fossils #Scicomm @princetonupress @princetonnature
