Hacker News with Generative AI: Paleontology

Mummy of juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from Upper Pleistocene (nature.com)
The frozen mummy of the large felid cub was found in the Upper Pleistocene permafrost on the Badyarikha River (Indigirka River basin) in the northeast of Yakutia, Russia.

Paleontology, Pleistocene, Siberia, Extinction, Ancient Animals

55 points by bryanrasmussen 10 days ago | 23 comments

35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten pulled from permafrost in Siberia (livescience.com)

Paleontology, Siberia, Ancient Animals, Discovery

3 points by gmays 14 days ago | 0 comments

Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence (cam.ac.uk)
A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution.

Paleontology, Evolution, Birds, Dinosaurs, Neuroscience

124 points by gmays 15 days ago | 6 comments

Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean environment and life (chemistryworld.com)
A giant meteorite that slammed into Earth over 3 billion years ago devastated early microbial life in the oceans, but also freed up a nutrient bonanza.

Paleontology, Earth Science, Microbiology, Meteorites

133 points by kristianp 17 days ago | 53 comments

28.000 Year Old Immaculate Saber-Tooth Cat Cub Found in Siberian Permafrost (gizmodo.com)
Discovered several years ago, this remarkably preserved saber-tooth cub is offering a rare glimpse into its species and life as it existed over 30,000 years ago.

Paleontology, Siberia, Archaeology, Pleistocene Era, Extinction

7 points by hochmartinez 18 days ago | 0 comments

Hiker discovers first trace of entire prehistoric ecosystem in Italian Alps (theguardian.com)
A hiker in the northern Italian Alps has stumbled across the first trace of what scientists believe to be an entire prehistoric ecosystem, including the well-preserved footprints of reptiles and amphibians, brought to light by the melting of snow and ice induced by the climate crisis.

Paleontology, Climate Change, Italy, Archaeology, Environmental Science

11 points by pseudolus 19 days ago | 0 comments

Mummified Sabretooth Cub Discovered in Siberia (nature.com)
The frozen mummy of the large felid cub was found in the Upper Pleistocene permafrost on the Badyarikha River (Indigirka River basin) in the northeast of Yakutia, Russia.

Paleontology, Siberia, Pleistocene, Extinct Animals, Arctic

10 points by deeel 19 days ago | 1 comments

Dinosaur Cold Case (cbc.ca)
It’s the ultimate cold case. A Canadian mine operator working in the Alberta oil sands hits a hard object covered with strange spots. It turns out to be a perfectly preserved corpse that’s been buried for 110 million years.

Paleontology, Fossils, Canada, Science, History

4 points by gnabgib 26 days ago | 0 comments

Earth endured over one million years of rain in the "Carnian Pluvial Event" (earth.com)
A period known as the Carnian Pluvial Event, which occurred about 232 million years ago, marked a dramatic turn in Earth’s climate history.

Earth Science, Paleontology, Climate Change, Geology

24 points by febed 29 days ago | 5 comments

Stunning fossil trapped in amber reveals previously unknown species (cnn.com)

Paleontology, Fossils, Science, Discovery

29 points by peutetre 37 days ago | 1 comments

Preserved tracks suggest non-avian dinosaurs used their wings to run (newscientist.com)
Tiny tracks in South Korea symbolise a moment 120 million years ago when a dinosaur took advantage of its wings to cover ground in large leaps – the oldest track evidence of wing-assisted movement in these extinct animals.

Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Evolution, Science, Biology

9 points by nobody9999 40 days ago | 2 comments

Platybelodon (wikipedia.org)
Platybelodon ("flat-spear tusk") is an extinct genus of large herbivorous proboscidean mammals related to modern-day elephants, placed in the "shovel tusker" family Amebelodontidae.

Paleontology, Extinct Animals, Mammals, Evolution

9 points by thunderbong 50 days ago | 0 comments

Terrifying Face of Car-Sized Millipede That Roamed Prehistoric Earth (gizmodo.com)
Millions of years before the dinosaurs came along, there was a creature scurrying around that some people might find far more terrifying than any tyrannosaur. Picture a millipede, but it weighs over 100 pounds (45 kilograms) and its body is the length of a car.

Paleontology, Prehistoric Life, Extinct Animals, Arthropods

7 points by wglb 53 days ago | 5 comments

'Entire ecosystem' of fossils 8.7M years old found under Los Angeles high school (theguardian.com)
Marine fossils dating back to as early as 8.7m years ago have been uncovered beneath a south Los Angeles high school.

Paleontology, Los Angeles, Fossils, Geology

90 points by cpach 54 days ago | 23 comments

In Mexico’s underwater caves, a glimpse of artifacts, fossils and human remains (smithsonianmag.com)
The underwater caves of the Yucatán Peninsula are a window to the distant past.

Archaeology, Mexico, Underwater Exploration, Paleontology

184 points by pseudolus 62 days ago | 53 comments

How did birds survive while dinosaurs went extinct? (yahoo.com)
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Paleontology, Evolution, Extinction, Birds, Dinosaurs

28 points by isaacfrond 64 days ago | 8 comments

FRED: New Zealand open-access and crowdsource database of fossil records (fred.org.nz)
FRED is a computer database for the New Zealand Fossil Record File (FRF) which is a recording scheme for fossil localities in NZ and nearby regions.

Databases, Paleontology, New Zealand, Open Access, Crowdsourcing

113 points by teleforce 70 days ago | 9 comments

Trove of dinosaur fossils found high in B.C. mountains (cbc.ca)
Paleontologists have uncovered dozens of fossils in northern B.C., only one of which came from a dinosaur that was previously known to that area.

Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Canada, Fossils

96 points by curmudgeon22 77 days ago | 65 comments

If I could dissect a sauropod (svpow.com)

Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Science, Biology

138 points by surprisetalk 82 days ago | 18 comments

Neanderthals' social isolation may have sped up their extinction (popsci.com)
Using DNA extracted from some roughly 45,000-year-old bones, scientists have found a new Neanderthal lineage that likely did not have a lot of interaction with others from its species.

Neanderthals, Extinction, Genetics, Paleontology, Social Behavior

25 points by geox 83 days ago | 14 comments

Some pterosaurs would flap, others would soar (phys.org)
Some species of pterosaurs flew by flapping their wings while others soared like vultures, demonstrates a new study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Paleontology, Science, Flight, Pterosaurs

16 points by wglb 85 days ago | 1 comments

Map of North America During the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) – 75 MYA (twitter.com)
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Geography, Paleontology, Cretaceous Period

4 points by agomez314 85 days ago | 0 comments

Is the Hubble crisis connected with the extinction of dinosaurs? (2022) (arxiv.org)

Cosmology, Paleontology, Science

6 points by elashri 98 days ago | 0 comments

Dinosaur footprints on either side of the Atlantic are matching sets (gizmodo.com)

Paleontology, Science, Geology

28 points by nickthegreek 99 days ago | 7 comments

Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean (phys.org)

Paleontology, Geology, Atlantic Ocean, Dinosaurs

178 points by geox 100 days ago | 150 comments

Marine worms made at least some trace fossil burrows called Bifungites (nytimes.com)