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Flipboard Science Desk

Dinosaur fossils are a popular showpiece at many high-end auctions, with near-complete skeletons selling for tens of millions of dollars. However, the private trade in T. rex specimens could be hampering researchers' understanding of the iconic Cretaceous predator. @LiveScience reports:
livescience.com/animals/dinosa

Live Science · 'Dispiriting and exasperating': The world's super rich are buying up T. rex fossils and it's hampering researchBy Patrick Pester
#Dinosaurs#TRex#Predator
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Flipboard Science Desk

Scientists from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland are arguing that the massive and mysterious tubelike fossils known as "prototaxites" deserve their own life form classification because, basically, they're too weird to belong to any other. @Futurism has more, including why prototaxites have long been a head-scratcher and a point of contention for scientists who to this day cannot figure out their nature:

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Futurism · Scientists Puzzled by Giant Ancient Life FormsBy Noor Al-Sibai
#Science#Geology#Earth
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Radical Anthropology

Pretty exciting record of #ochre (red/orange) close to #burials of #Levant #MiddlePalaeolithic at #Tinshemet

These are human populations contemporary to #Skhul and #Qafzeh and we need more on the #fossils -- any H s/Nean admixing, cultural and genetic?

nature.com/articles/s41562-025

NatureEvidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago - Nature Human BehaviourThe Middle Palaeolithic of southwest Asia witnessed interactions and knowledge sharing between archaic and modern humans ~130,000–80,000 years ago. These interactions led to increased behavioural complexity and consolidation of a uniform behavioural set across Homo groups in the region.
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The Inquisitive Biologist

New review: Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior is a concise, well-structured, and beautifully illustrated book that transcends being "merely" good popular science by also addressing professional palaeontologists.

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#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #AnimalBehavior #Ethology #Fossils #Evolution #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #Scicomm princetonupress@mastodon.social @princetonnature @serpenillus @bookstodon

The Inquisitive Biologist · Book review – Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We KnowUncovering Dinosaur Behavior is a concise, well-structured, and beautifully illustrated book that transcends being “merely” good popular science by also addressing professional palaeont…
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Russell Garwood

This #FossilFriday meet Bojophlebia - this cool ~309 million year old fossil insect was found in the Czech Republic. The scale bar on the image is 4cm, so we can estimate this animal had a wingspan of over 40cm. What it actually *was* though, has been subject to discussion. When first described in the 1980s, it was originally thought to be an early-branching member of the lineage leading to today's mayflies.

A cool fossil insect - this is preserved in a large slab of yellow rock, and the insect comprises a body, in a dark brown colour, some long legs poking out from the body on both sides, and then in a lighter brown, there are two pairs of wings on which you can see the venation
A photograph of the hind wing of this specimen (top), with line drawings of the veins below it (middle, bottom).
#science#nature#Palaeontology
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