Hacker News with Generative AI: Paleontology

Million year-old bubbles could solve Ice Age mystery (bbc.com)
What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica.

Science, Climate Change, Antarctica, Paleontology

6 points by whoisstan 8 days ago | 0 comments

UK's biggest dinosaur footprint site unearthed (bbc.com)
The UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site has been discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire.

Paleontology, Archaeology, United Kingdom, Dinosaurs

87 points by peutetre 16 days ago | 14 comments

Gondwanaland: The search for a land before (human) time (australiangeographic.com.au)
The Gondwana supercontinent broke up millions of years ago. Now, researchers are piecing it back together again.

Geology, Paleontology, Supercontinents, Australia

63 points by bryanrasmussen 22 days ago | 46 comments

Scientists unveil 50k-year-old baby mammoth remains (bbc.co.uk)
Russian scientists have unveiled the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found in thawing permafrost in the remote Yakutia region of Siberia during the summer.

Paleontology, Siberia, Mammoths, Climate Change

3 points by ljf 25 days ago | 0 comments

Young mammoth remains found nearly intact in Siberian permafrost (rte.ie)
Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years.

Paleontology, Siberia, Mammoths, Permafrost, Climate Change

3 points by Anthony-G 25 days ago | 0 comments

Neanderthals cold-adapted? Ribcage reconstruction may hold the answer (phys.org)
Researchers at the Department of Paleobiology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid report that analysis of a Neanderthal ribcage from a cave in Iraq exhibits a "bell-shaped" thorax configuration typical of Neanderthals elsewhere, differing from that of modern humans.

Neanderthals, Paleontology, Anthropology, Human Evolution, Archaeology

54 points by wglb 26 days ago | 49 comments

Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas (phys.org)
For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons, saber-toothed cats and dire wolves that once roamed North and South America.

Paleontology, Archaeology, Extinction, History, North America

75 points by wglb 26 days ago | 22 comments

New York man finds Mastodon jaw while gardening in his backyard (apnews.com)
Scholars are hailing the discovery of a fossilized mastodon jaw discovered by a man who spotted two giant teeth while gardening at his upstate New York home this year.

Paleontology, New York, Archaeology, Fossils

29 points by geox 30 days ago | 13 comments

World's oldest mammalian ancestor discovered in Mallorca (phys.org)
An international research team led by the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) and the Museu Balear de Ciències Naturals (MUCBO | MBCN) have described a fossil animal that lived between 270 and 280 million years ago in present-day Mallorca.

Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology, Spain

9 points by pseudolus 32 days ago | 0 comments

The Bering Land Bridge was more like a swamp (gizmodo.com)
During the last Ice Age, modern-day Siberia and Alaska were connected by a landmass that allowed animals—and ancient humans—to migrate across what is now the Bering Sea.

Paleontology, Geology, History, Archaeology

60 points by bikenaga 33 days ago | 29 comments

Study reveals mammoth as key food source for ancient Americans (uaf.edu)
Scientists have uncovered the first direct evidence that ancient Americans relied primarily on mammoth and other large animals for food.

Archaeology, Food, Ancient History, North America, Paleontology

108 points by stevenwoo 36 days ago | 75 comments

What fossilized dino feces can tell us about their rise to dominance (arstechnica.com)
Paleontologists have long puzzled over how the dinosaurs—originally relatively small and of minor importance to the broader ecosystem—evolved to become the dominant species some 30 million years later. Fossilized feces and vomit from dinosaurs might hold important clues to how and why this evolutionary milestone came about, according to a new paper published in the journal Nature.

Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Evolution, Science

21 points by Brajeshwar 51 days ago | 3 comments

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 55 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 59 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 61 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 62 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 63 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 64 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 64 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 71 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 75 days ago | 5 comments

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

Paleontology, Fossils, Science, Discovery

29 points by peutetre 83 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 85 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 95 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 98 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 100 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 107 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 110 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 115 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 122 days ago | 65 comments