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  1. Raysun

    Trilobite

    Found in Silver City New Mexico Greetings, I was looking to get an I D or more specifically a species. The entire specimen measures 10.71 cm x7.62 . It's the first find of it's kind for me.
  2. I spent two days observing the coast of half moon bay along a 2 mile stretch of land. I made this because if it is true, it would place an extinction event between 2 recorded ones.
  3. Many Newly Discovered Species Are Already Gone Scientists are uncovering previously unknown species preserved in museum and botanical garden collections, only to find that they no longer exist in the wild. Katarina Zimmer, Wired, June 10, 2023 Undark version of above article. The paywalled paper is: Solórzano-Kraemer, M.M., Kunz, R., Hammel, J.U., Peñalver, E., Delclòs, X. and Engel, M.S., 2022. Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Holocene copal and Defaunation resin from Eastern Africa indicate Recent biodiversity change. The Holocene, 32(5), pp.414-432. PDF of preprint of Solórzano-Kraemer et al. (2022) Yours, Paul H.
  4. Some hints on the extinction of our cherished Meg: Trophic position of Otodus megalodon and great white sharks through time revealed by zinc isotopes (link to nature communications) Great white sharks may have contributed to megalodon extinction (link to science daily) Franz Bernhard
  5. Mammoths and other large animals survived in the north much longer than previously believed. New DNA research indicates that the climate, not humans, led to the demise of these large creatures, Norway Science, January, 2022 The open access paper is: Wang, Y., Pedersen, M.W., Alsos, I.G., De Sanctis, B., Racimo, F., Prohaska, A., Coissac, E., Owens, H.L., Merkel, M.K.F., Fernandez-Guerra, A. and Rouillard, A.,2021. Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics. Nature, 600(7887), pp.86-92. It concludes that mammoths survived in continental northeast Siberia until 7,300 BP; North America until 8,600 BP; and the Taimyr Peninsula as late as 3,900 BP. Yours, Paul H.
  6. At Tanis, scientists studied the remains of three sturgeons and three paddlefish, using in particular high-resolution X-ray tomographic analysis from the Grenoble European Synchrotron (ESRF). They first established that the fish had indeed perished in the seiche episode, which was accompanied by a rain of glass spherules... https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/23/world/asteroid-dinosaur-extinction-spring-scn/index.html The research is described in a paper published Wednesday (Dec. 8) in the journal Scientific Reports.
  7. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210811113120.htm "over the last 20,000-50,000 years birds have undergone a major extinction event, inflicted chiefly by humans, which caused the disappearance of about 10%-20% of all avian species" "68% of the flightless bird species known to science became extinct"
  8. Mysterious event nearly wiped out sharks 19 million years ago By Yasemin Saplakoglu, Live Science, June 3, 2021 "It's unknown whether the ancient sharks died off in a single day, weeks, years or even thousands of years." The paper is: Elizabeth C. Sibert and Leah D. Rubin, 2021 An early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks Science 04 Jun 2021: Vol. 372, Issue 6546, pp. 1105-1107 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz3549 Yours, Paul H.
  9. Ancient kauri trees capture last collapse of Earth’s magnetic field By Paul Voosen, Science, February 18, 2021 Ancient Trees Show When The Earth's Magnetic Field Last Flipped Out By Nell Greenfield-Boyce, Short Wave, NPR, February 18, 2021 Buried treasure - subfossil swamp kauri By Kate Evans, New Zealand Geographic Voosen, P., 2021, Kauri trees mark magnetic flip 42,000 years ago Science. vol. 371, Issue 6531, pp. 766 DOI: 10.1126/science.371.6531.766 The paper is: Cooper, A., Turney, C.S.M., Palmer, J. and others, 2021, Global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago Science. Vol. 371, Issue 6531, pp. 811-818 Related paper Staff, R.A., Hardiman, M., Ramsey, C.B., Adolphi, F., Hare, V.J., Koutsodendris, A. and Pross, J., 2019. Reconciling the Greenland ice-core and radiocarbon timescales through the Laschamp geomagnetic excursion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 520, pp.1-9. Yours, Paul H.
  10. Burning Fossil Fuels Helped Drive Earth’s Most Massive Extinction https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/science/extinction-global-warming.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=829253552&algo=identity&imp_id=724592622&action=click&module=Science Technology&pgtype=Homepage
  11. Oxytropidoceras

    Why did trilobites go extinct?

    Why did trilobites go extinct? By Donavyn Coffey, Live Science, November 2020 https://www.livescience.com/why-trilobites-went-extinct.html The open access paper is: Jonathan L. Payne, Alexandra V. Turchyn, Adina Paytan, Donald J. DePaolo, Daniel J. Lehrmann, Meiyi Yu, and Wei, Calcium isotope constraints on the end-Permian mass extinction. PNAS May 11, 2010 107 (19) 8543-8548 https://www.pnas.org/content/107/19/8543 A totally unrelated article is: The role of cat eye narrowing in cat-human communication by Ellie Bennett, Snippet Science, November 2020 https://www.snippetscience.com/the-role-of-cat-eye-narrowing-in-cat-human-communication The open access paper is: Humphrey T, Proops L, Forman J, Spooner R and McComb K. The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat-human communication. Sci Rep. 2020 Oct. 10, 16503 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73426-0 Yours, Paul H.
  12. Thought this fit better here than general fossil discussion but I thought it would be fun if we talked about what it was like on that day 66 million years ago. You know it has to be a great day. What was the weather like? The day of the year? The time of day? What the dinos were doing? What on Earth was going on?
  13. Hi everyone, Last year we visited a dinosaur show (I believe something like "DinoExpo") in our area in the Alsace (France), where they screened a film about the meteor-strike that killed the dinosaurs. It was spoken in French (though could of course have been voiced-over) and I hadn't seen it before. However, my wife, who normally isn't overly interested in anything dinosaur liked it a lot, to the extent of asking me afterwards whether I could find it so she could finish watching it. As I don't know where to start on it, I thought I'd ask here... So, the documentary's most defining features I remember: 1. It's a 3D animation 2. The topic is the timeline of the impact of the meteor that killed the dinosaurs 3. This timeline is used to explain events that occurred around the world immediately prior and immediately following the impact on an hour by hour pace 4. There seemed to be a greater emphasis on Mongolian dinosaurs than most documentaries I've seen Any pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!
  14. For ancient deep-sea plankton, a long decline before extinction University of Buffalo, Press release by Charlotte Hsu Sheets, H.D., Mitchell, C.E., Melchin, M.J., Loxton, J., Štorch, P., Carlucci, K.L. and Hawkins, A.D., 2016. Graptolite community responses to global climate change and the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(30), pp.8380-8385. Researchgate PDF for above paper Related publications Yours, Paul H.
  15. Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth, study shows, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 18, 2020 "Killer cosmic rays from nearby supernovae could be the culprit behind at least one mass extinction event, researchers said, and finding certain radioactive isotopes in Earth's rock record could confirm this scenario." The open access paper is: Brian D. Fields, Adrian L. Melott, John Ellis, Adrienne F. Ertel, Brian J. Fry, Bruce S. Lieberman, Zhenghai Liu, Jesse A. Miller, Brian C. Thomas. Supernova triggers for end-Devonian extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020; 202013774 Yours Paul H.
  16. They sequenced 14 woolly rhino genomes and found that they co-existed with humans for thousands of years with stable population sizes. They then conclude that humans did not cause the extinction, but warming of the climate did. What if wooly rhino just tasted bad? Then humans wouldn't hunt them until the other megafauna were extinct. Or we invented barbeque sauce. Then they would disappear in a blink of an eye. Anyway here's the news article: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-ancient-genomes-woolly-rhinos-extinct.html
  17. Asteroid shower rained space rocks on Earth and the moon 800 million years ago By Charles Q. Choi, SpaceCom, July 21, 2020 Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system 800 million years ago revealed by lunar craters by Osaka University, PhysOrg, July 21, 2020 The open access paper is: Terada, K., Morota, T. & Kato, M. Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system immediately before the Cryogenian period revealed by KAGUYA. Nature Communications (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17115-6 Yours, Paul H.
  18. dinosaur man

    The Great Dyings time

    Just found this about the Permian extinction/the great dying, earths greatest mass extinction. https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/geochronologists-shed-light-earths-greatest-mass-extinction
  19. News article: https://www.miragenews.com/fossil-discoveries-reveal-cause-of-megafauna-extinction/ Open access article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15785-w
  20. Racki, G., 2020, Volcanism as a prime cause of mass extinctions: Retrospectives and perspectives, in Adatte, T., Bond, D.P.G., and Keller, G., eds., Mass Extinctions, Volcanism, and Impacts: New Developments: Geological Society of America Special Paper 544, p. 1–34 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337951571_Volcanism_as_a_prime_cause_of_mass_extinctions_Retrospectives_and_perspectives https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Grzegorz_Racki Racki, G., Rakociński, M., Marynowski, L. and Wignall, P.B., 2018. Mercury enrichments and the Frasnian-Famennian biotic crisis: A volcanic trigger proved?. Geology, 46(6), pp.543-546. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326031821_Mercury_enrichments_and_the_Frasnian-Famennian_biotic_crisis_A_volcanic_trigger_proved Let's be careful out there, Paul H.
  21. I read "The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries" by Donald R. Prothero. The author states that paleontologists now mostly do not think that the Chicxulub metor impact killed off the non-avian dinosaurs, and that other explainations are preferred. He did not really explain this statement. That certainly was news to me! I am no professional though. What's the truth?
  22. One of World's Largest Freshwater Fish May Be First Official Extinction of 2020 By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science, January 07, 2020 https://www.livescience.com/chinese-paddlefish-extinct.html This enormous ancient fish is officially extinct By Eva Frederick, Science, Jan. 7, 2020 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/enormous-ancient-fish-officially-extinct The paper is: Zhang, H., Jarić, I., Roberts, D.L., He, Y., Du, H., Wu, J., Wang, C. and Wei, Q., 2020. Extinction of one of the world's largest freshwater fishes: Lessons for conserving the endangered Yangtze fauna. Science of The Total Environment, 710, p.136242. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719362382 Yours, Paul H.
  23. Human impact on nature 'dates back millions of years' By Helen Briggs, BBC News, January 20, 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51068816 The open access paper is: Faurby, S., Silvestro, D., Werdelin, L. and Antonelli, A., Brain expansion in early hominins predicts carnivore extinctions in East Africa. Ecology Letters. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13451 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31943670 Yours, Paul H.
  24. snolly50

    The Photo Ark

    snolly (accompanied and supervised by the intrepid snollywife) spent a very pleasant, thought provoking evening at a lecture by Joel Sartore. Sartore is a National Geographic photographer, and founder of the Photo Ark project (link below). His presentation included both video and stills of his wonderful photographic efforts. With humor and self-revelation, his talk laid out the fundamental facts regarding the realities of survival for the animal world and indeed, our foolish selves. A private reception following the lecture afforded the opportunity to meet Sartore. In person he proved to be a warm, affable individual with an infectious love of the natural world. It was time well spent, and if the opportunity arises for interested Forum members, I would certainly recommend attendance of this presentation. https://www.joelsartore.com/gallery/the-photo-ark/
  25. Tidgy's Dad

    My Dear Cousins

    Somehow, I find this terribly sad. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200128-how-did-the-last-neanderthals-live
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