Paleontology
Electronic engineering
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Carnaúba: an X-ray supermicroscope
The longest light beamline of Sirius in Campinas, São Paulo State, provides details on fossil histories, interaction of plants with the soil, and impurities in diamonds
Paleontology
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Pterosaur ancestor had a beak
230 million years ago, bipedal animal with long fingers surprisingly had a beak
By Redação
Paleontology
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Hollow bones promoted gigantism in dinosaurs
Fossil helps explain how dinosaurs became giants
By Redação
Paleontology
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Fossil extends the history of peppers
Chili peppers appear to have existed in North America long before their supposed origin in South America
By Redação
Paleontology
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Related sauropods found in Australia and South America
Dinosaur species from Australia roamed between continents 95 million years ago
By Redação
Archaeology
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Fossil was a giant honeybee hive
Giant honeybee nest mistaken for a fossil, leading to erroneous geological conclusions
By Redação
Paleontology
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A 34-million-year-old flower
Revised description of fossilized flower preserved in amber indicates the climate in northern Europe was milder in the distant past
By Redação
Paleontology
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A boreal forest from the past
Polar desert in Greenland may have been a boreal forest two million years ago
By Redação
Paleontology
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The banded spider of Taubaté
Fossil from Taubaté used to describe an extinct spider with a banded pattern and very long front legs
By Redação
Archaeology
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A 4,000-year-old comb for removing head lice
Archaeologists find 4,000-year-old comb for removing head lice
By Redação
PALEONTOLOGY
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Myanmar fossils in foreign hands
Publication figures indicate that paleontologists took advantage of armed conflicts in Myanmar to gain access to fossils preserved in amber
By Redação
History
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Mercenaries fought against the Carthaginians alongside the Greeks
Mercenaries fought against the Carthaginians alongside the Greeks in 480 B.C.
By Redação
Paleontology
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The first bipedal hominids
Considered the oldest representative of the human lineage, the species Sahelanthropus tchadensis lived around seven million years ago
By Redação
PALEONTOLOGY
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Fred the wandering mastodon
Researchers identify the migratory routes of a mastodon that died approximately 13,200 years ago
By Redação
Paleontology
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São Paulo was once covered by forest
São Paulo Metropolitan Area was once covered by vast forest of araucaria trees between 180,000 and 135,000 years ago
By Redação
Paleontology
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The Cause of Big John’s Headache
Hole in dinosaur skull resulted from an attack before it died 66 million years ago
By Redação
PALEONTOLOGY
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A precursor to dinosaurs
An 11-centimeter right femur is all that remains of the oldest dinosaur precursor ever found in South America
By Redação
Paleontology
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The largest “sea dragon” fossil in the UK
Paleontologists and conservationists announced that they had identified the UK's largest ichthyosaur fossil
By Redação
Paleoecology
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Caribbean incursions
Studies back up the hypothesis that the Caribbean Sea flooded parts of the western Amazon between 23 and 10 million years ago
By Tiago Jokura