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Palaeontology 🦖
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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...
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- Smithsonian's Paleobiology website
- University of California Museum of Paleontology
- The Paleontological Society
- The Palaeontological Association
- The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
- The Paleontology Portal
- "Geology, Paleontology & Theories of the Earth" – a collection of more than 100 digitised landmark and early books on Earth sciences at the Linda Hall Library
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Plants struggled for millions of years after the world's worst climate catastrophe
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How Enormous Glaciers on ‘Snowball Earth’ Might Have Bulldozed the Path to Complex Life on Our Planet
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Near-complete skull discovery reveals 'top apex', leopard-sized 'fearsome' carnivore
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Divers discover 500,000-year-old treasure trove of fossils in Florida sinkhole
(www.livescience.com)
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Underwater fossil bed discovered by collectors preserves rare slice of Florida's past
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Fossils Preserve Both Skin and Scales from an Ancient Sea Monster - Lemmy: Bestiverse
(lemmy.bestiver.se)
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Ape-Like Human Ancestors Were Largely Vegetarian 3.3 Million Years Ago in South Africa, Fossil Teeth Reveal
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
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Fossilized Poop Reveals How Extinct, Flightless Birds Helped Spread New Zealand's Colorful Fungi
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
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