TrèsFluke HAS MOVEDNeanderthals used Birch Tar as an antiseptic.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/never-mind-band-aids-neanderthals-had-antiseptic-birch-tar/
Annals of Botany🔬 Takeaway: The evolution of vascular systems in early seed plants was far more complex than previously thought, involving multiple adaptive modifications and transitional stages. Ancient plant evolution was anything but simple. 🌱 (9/9)
🌿Check the newly published article “Shoot apical meristem and initial vascular development of a late Palaeozoic spermatophyte (order Medullosales)” in @AnnBot by Lydéric Portailler & Ludwig Luthardt. (1/9)
SPAAM-communityAncient walnuts 🌰 tell a Silk Road story! Genome-wide data 🧬 from Tang Dynasty Xinjiang walnuts reveal a transitional genetic stage linking Central Asia and China in a new study published in Cell Reports.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116652
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #ancientDNA #silkroad #paleobotany
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116652
#MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #ancientDNA #silkroad #paleobotany
Anthropology.netNew synthesis shows Italians exploited olive trees for 6,000+ years and produced oil 4,000 years ago, far earlier than once thought. Evidence challenges colonial narratives. #Archaeology #AncientHistory #RomanItaly #Paleobotany #Archaeobotany https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-italian-olive-goes-back-further
The Inquisitive BiologistThis week's #NewBooks at the library: I adopted damaged copies of The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants (look out for a review in the near future) and David Attenborough's Life Trilogy Boxset.
#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Paleobotany #Palaeobotany #Plants #Botany #NaturalHistory @bookstodon @princetonupress
grimmigesSo much for strict #OpenData policies. Paper published in 2021 in New Phytologist, data matrix: "... is accessible to readers in #Morphobank, project # 3917. We have enabled anonymous login."
https://www.morphobank.org/myprojects/3917/overview
Anonymous login works (first pic), "Project disc usage: 0 bytes". Which happens to be exactly the number of linked matrices under the project (2nd pic)
Deleted the data after review? Avoid anyone else can (mis)use it.
#paleobotany #phylogeny #FightTheFog #transparency in #science
🌦️But why did some groups spread and others disappear during the Neogene? The study points to possible links with changing monsoon climates, but the full story remains a mystery waiting to be uncovered. (6/6)
#FossilPlants #Biogeography #TropicalForests #PlantEvolution #Paleobotany #AoBpapers
🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Persistence of Gondwanan woods in Myanmar through the Paleogene’ in @AnnBot by Nicolas Gentis and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/6)
#FossilPlants #Biogeography #TropicalForests #PlantEvolution #Paleobotany #AoBpapers
Emma the Curious 🧐 has moved!Between 400 to 700 years ago, in mountains near a community in Oaxaca, people in the Nejapan Sierra Sur collected over a hundred different species of seeds. They put them in a bin close to where they retreated when colonial invaders - Zapotecs, Aztecs, later, the Spaniards - came sweeping through the area. This ancient seed bank was their way of ensuring the survival of their complex cuisine.
#ethnobotany #mesoamerica #paleobotany #archaeology
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/124023175.cms
