Faye Flam?s post this week on viruses and how they add information to the genome underscores the number of ghosts we have lurking in our DNA. By ghosts, of course, I mean pseudogenes. In a sense they really are ghosts, because they contain the remnants of function they once had, and more interestingly, they retain ...
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- 500-million-year-old Ecdysozoan fossil embryos found in China are older than dinosaurs
Scientists in China have just dug up 500-million-year-old embryos that will help us understand the developmental biology of ancient organisms.
12/25/2024 - 3:09 am | View Link - Predatory Dinosaur Fossils Found in Kyrgyzstan, New Species of T-Rex Relative
Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur called Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus in Kyrgyzstan, the first Jurassic theropod found in Central Asia.
12/25/2024 - 1:26 am | View Link - ‘Alien plant’ fossil found decades ago in Utah unrelated to any living or extinct species, new study reveals
An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.
12/24/2024 - 4:00 pm | View Link - Rare fossil embryos show early Ecdysozoa development in Cambrian era
An international research team has made a notable discovery of fossil embryos belonging to Ecdysozoa, a diverse group of animals including roundworms, velvet worms, insects, and crabs. These fossils, ...
12/24/2024 - 3:15 am | View Link - Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest
New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought.
12/23/2024 - 2:19 am | View Link - More
- The Fossil Forum
In this area, we celebrate our amateur contributions to the paleontological sciences. Whether by volunteering their time (lab work, collections maintenance, organized field work), or through the donation of significant specimens to scientific institutions, amateurs have always played an important but unheralded part!
12/25/2024 - 5:01 am | View Website - How do you display your fossils?
As for the cabinets where I display fossils I use 3 things. The Archive cabinet I just mentioned. These low IKEA bookshelf boxes, which are just my favorite thing to display. They are really everywhere in my house. And like @Masp just mentioned the Ikea Detolf display cabinet are great for displaying fossils and other thing.
12/21/2024 - 2:17 pm | View Website - How can I prepare shark tooth fossils?
Shark teeth Fossils prepar Hi, this is a rare shark tooth fossil I have. This is a shark tooth fossil from Korea, and I want to make this tooth clean. Of course, I have all the necessary ingredients. Air scribe, air blast ,I have all the ingredients, but I think I need to use air blast to clean these teeth delicately.
12/21/2024 - 9:45 am | View Website - How would you display large, flat fossils?
I have a handful of flat, plate-like fish fossils that I would like to display on a wall. Most of them are pretty ordinary-sized (25x20cm or less), but one plate is comparatively huge, 40cm wide by nearly 80cm high. If they were all small, I'd grab some of those display racks people use for their...
12/18/2024 - 4:37 pm | View Website - Fossils from Folkestone, Kent
Member Title: 28 FOSSILS LATER - MotM August 2020 Posted August 30, 2018. 14 minutes ago, Marlowe said:
12/18/2024 - 6:14 am | View Website - More
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