#paleontologists — Public Fediverse posts
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“A 10,000 year-old tooth in remarkable condition from an ancient Pacific mastodon, a large #mammal that once inhabited North America, was recently discovered by a California scientist.
#BrigidLynch, a #geomorphologist, was working at a preserve in San Mateo county, when she stumbled across a peculiar rock.”
#Paleontologists later confirmed it was not a stone, but an adult Pacific #mastodon molar, according to a Wednesday news release from the Midpeninsula regional open space district (Midpen).”
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Three new ancestors added to #TasmanianTiger's storyline https://phys.org/news/2024-09-ancestors-added-tasmanian-tiger-storyline.html
Three new #thylacinids (Marsupialia, Thylacinidae) from late Oligocene deposits of the #Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern #Queensland https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2384595
"#paleontologists say the #NewSpecies are now the oldest members of the #Thylacine family to date, estimated to be 25–23 million years old, making them late #Oligocene in age."
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#Paleontologists Find New #Fossils of Enigmatic North American Primate
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/ekgmowechashala-12425.html#Phylogeny and #paleobiogeography of the enigmatic North American #primate #Ekgmowechashala illuminated by new #fossils https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248423001318
"Ekgmowechashala is a poorly documented but very distinctive species of ancient primate that lived in western North America during the Early #Oligocene epoch, some 30 million years ago."