Nominative determinism in action, yet again!
According to the Google Translator, Grandoni means big guys… So Dino Grandoni…
Apart from the herbivore bit, that could be a labrador…
… During a recent expedition, researchers drilled more than 487 metres into the West Antarctic ice cap and discovered a sub-glacial river flowing beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, earth.com released.
The river, as high as a 30-storey building and as wide as a city block, is a mixture of freshwater and seawater, slowly making its way towards the ocean.
“We found water at the end of the borehole and, with the help of our camera, we even discovered a shoal of lobster-like creatures 400 kilometres from the ocean”, said expedition leader Huw Horgan. …
Once again, our friends at Farmingdale Observer have curiously tagged a story as Home Improvement:
Other curious applications of this tag may be found here and here.
Methinks they need a Science category/tag.
ETA:
And I’m an idiot. These are living critters, not fossils. I’ll move this to “interesting,” if y’all think I should.
Paleolake geochronology supports Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) age for human tracks at White Sands, New Mexico
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv4951
Not surprised. I’d bet that earlier dates will be confirmed.
(I am not really “up on” the state of paleontology and related research, so this may be a face-palm-level question, in which case I apologize for taking up everyone’s time.)
This article got me thinking about the effect of being able to do genome sequencing from DNA on the field. Has it been revolutionary, or is it just another tool? Does it make it easier to confirm theories, or is it something that’s nice to be able to use when you can, but hasn’t really had much impact overall?
I would expect it would be limited because of the diffculty in finding usable DNA (i.e., DNA that hasn’t degraded too much, as they did in this case), but I would think it could open up lots of possibilities in terms of assessing migration of populations.
If you are not checking out Gutsick Gibbon, you absolutely should. She is a PhD candidate currently defending her thesis and still finds time to make 1-2 hour discussion videos on human evolution. And she is funny as hell. Highly recommended!
ETA: Oh yeah, why it applies to your post! She “gripes” lightheartedly about the confusion all in interbreeding in Asia causes in sorting out the threads of human evolution. To the point that she changes the “muddle in the middle” title for all the intertwined human relatives and ancestors found there to “the orgy in the middle.” There was an awful lot of boinking going on! At one point she says, “It would make it a lot easier in they kept it in their loincloths a bit more.”
Details in the new research suggest that Neanderthals may have been unexpectedly sophisticated in their approach to nutrition, too.
I think this is actually mistaken, though. Utahraptors were predators, so presumably attacked when they were hungry and back off when they thought something wasn’t worth the effort to tackle. Geese are herbivores and so have no such considerations.
I found her tangential dive into the origin of dogs to be fascinating.
Dinosaurs Gathered to Perform Mating Dances With Kicks and Spins at This Site in Colorado—and You Can Go See It for Yourself
Paleontologists have discovered what appears to be one of the largest dinosaur courtship arenas in the world, just 15 miles west of Denver
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dinosaurs-gathered-to-perform-mating-dances-with-kicks-and-spins-at-this-site-in-colorado-and-you-can-go-see-it-for-yourself-180986995/
Artist’s impression:
