Mastodawn

📖 Further reading: The study underlines the need to re-examine the #paleoecology of these fascinating #arthropods and that additional discoveries like Polonolimulus may led to further revisions in our understanding of the #habitat and early #diversification of this group. Full paper can be found here in #OpenAccess for everyone to read: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20950 #fossils #paleobiology #paleontology #evolution

J of Systematics and Evolution Feb 22

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🧬From evolutionary #genomics and #paleobiology to speciation and #conservation, we've got something for everyone!
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Scientific Frontline Feb 13

Grey #wolves modify their diets in response to #climate warming, increasingly consuming harder foods like bones—a behavior known as durophagy—to extract necessary nutrition.
#Conservation #Ecology #Zoology #Paleobiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/cons02132601.html

Fossil evidence reveals how grey wolves adapt diets to climate change

Researchers compared the teeth of grey wolves from three different time periods

GaiaCrisisPhil Jan 22

Prototaxites

"About 400 million years ago—long before the first giant dinosaurs—a massive and strange organism up to 8 meters long loomed over the Lilliputian plants, mushrooms, and bugs that carpeted the land"

Not a fungus. Not a lichen. Not a plant ...

An unknown branch of multicellular life that went extinct

https://www.science.org/content/article/bizarre-400-million-year-old-fossil-was-unknown-life-form

#fossils #Prototaxites #newFormOfLife #evolutionaryBiology #Edinburgh #Scotland #paleobiology #RhynieChert

Kenneth De Baets Aug 1, 2025

Preprint released just in time for #fossilfriday: Unique fingerprint of marine ectotherm body size change during hyperthermal crises https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.25.666730 #paleontology #paleobiology #ecology #Evolution #ClimateWarming

ZPONZ Jul 19, 2025

THE EXPERT EDGE BY ZPONZ: Expert in Paleobiology
Jonathan Bloch is a curator of vertebrate paleontology in the Department of Natural History at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Jon's research focuses on fossil vertebrates from the Cenozoic with an emphasis on addressing questions surrounding the first appearance and early evolution of the modern orders of mammals, including primates.
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llewelly Jul 15, 2025

hooray! ants part 2 is out!
https://www.palaeocast.com/ants/

how ants evolved from wasps

new 113 million year old ant from the Crato Formatio of Brazil!
@futurebird

#ants
#fossils
#insects
#paleobiology

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Planetary Ecologist Jun 6, 2025

Stage (stratigraphy) (Geology terminology ⛰️)

In chronostratigraphy, a stage is a succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic timescale, which usually represents millions of years of deposition. A given stage of rock and the corresponding age of time will by convention have the same name, and the same boundaries. Rock series are divided...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_(stratigraphy)

#Stage #UnitsOfTime #Paleobiology #Geochronology #GeologicalAges #Paleogeography

Stage (stratigraphy) - Wikipedia

ZPONZ May 9, 2025

THE EXPERT EDGE BY ZPONZ: Expert in Paleobiology
Rich Aronson grew up in Queens, New York, and became interested in marine biology at an early age, collecting shells on Jones Beach, Long Island. He received his A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1979 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1985.
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Niklas Hohmann Feb 20, 2025

🚨New Publication🚨
Seamlessly integrate #stratigraphy, #taphonomy, #ecology and evolutionary biology to build your modeling pipelines for stratigraphic #paleobiology
Published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution , R package available on CRAN
@Emiliagnathus
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.14507