Gerard PJ
@paleogee26.bsky.social
Biology, Paleontology. Really interested in all sciences. Scientific illustration, (many Paleoart) Literature, music and sports🦍🐳🦇🕷️🌳🌋🏔️☄️📚🎨🎸⚽🏀
Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup
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Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup - Nature
The discovery of an unusual protist named Solarion arienae, which has a mitochondrial genome with some intriguing features, provides insight into the early radiation of eukaryotic groups.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Rare microbial relict sheds light on an ancient eukaryotic supergroup
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Hunted hunters – prey of Aspidorhynchus (Actinopterygii) within isolated gastrointestinal tracts from the late Jurassic of the Solnhofen Archipelago fr.pensoft.net/articles.php...
Hunted hunters – prey of Aspidorhynchus (Actinopterygii) within isolated gastrointestinal tracts from the late Jurassic of the Solnhofen Archipelago
Members of the Aspidorhynchidae, an extinct family of ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii) are amongst the most common larger predatory fish in the Late-Jurassic Solnhofen Archipelago. Aspidorhynchids fro...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Hunted hunters – prey of Aspidorhynchus (Actinopterygii) within isolated gastrointestinal tracts from the late Jurassic of the Solnhofen Archipelago fr.pensoft.net/articles.php...
Osteology, taxonomy and phylogenetic affinities of a new pseudosuchian archosaur from the Middle Triassic of southern Brazil www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Osteology, taxonomy and phylogenetic affinities of a new pseudosuchian archosaur from the Middle Triassic of southern Brazil
Following the end-Permian mass extinction, archosaurs underwent rapid taxonomic and morphological diversification. While the avian lineage expanded into a broader range of ecological niches during ...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Osteology, taxonomy and phylogenetic affinities of a new pseudosuchian archosaur from the Middle Triassic of southern Brazil www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ancient RNA expression profiles from the extinct woolly mammoth: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Ancient RNA expression profiles from the extinct woolly mammoth
Ancient RNA profiles from Late Pleistocene woolly mammoths were sequenced from permafrost-preserved
mummified tissues, revealing tissue-specific transcriptional functions and gene expression
regulator...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Ancient RNA expression profiles from the extinct woolly mammoth: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Saliva Protein Genes in Humans were Shaped During Primate Evolution url: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
Saliva Protein Genes in Humans were Shaped During Primate Evolution
Abstract. Genes within the secretory calcium-binding phosphoprotein locus diversified along with the formation of a calcified skeleton in vertebrates, the
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November 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Saliva Protein Genes in Humans were Shaped During Primate Evolution url: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
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Have you already sent us your abstracts? Deadline for talks and poster submissions is December 1: Only a few days left!⏳
Deadline to enter the paleoart gallery is December 20 🎨
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Deadline to enter the paleoart gallery is December 20 🎨
More info: awap-science.org/en/vcwap-cur...
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Have you already sent us your abstracts? Deadline for talks and poster submissions is December 1: Only a few days left!⏳
Deadline to enter the paleoart gallery is December 20 🎨
More info: awap-science.org/en/vcwap-cur...
Deadline to enter the paleoart gallery is December 20 🎨
More info: awap-science.org/en/vcwap-cur...
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Born #OnThisDay in 1920 was Rosalind Franklin. Her work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA helped lead to the discovery of its structure, but her efforts were only recognised posthumously. Liz Sockett FRS and Isabelle Moss reflect on her enduring legacy:
From molecular structures to research culture: Celebrating Rosalind Franklin’s legacy | Royal Society
Rosalind Franklin never lived to see the full impact of her discoveries. She didn’t witness how her work on DNA would revolutionise biology, nor did she witness the impact she would have in…
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July 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Born #OnThisDay in 1920 was Rosalind Franklin. Her work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA helped lead to the discovery of its structure, but her efforts were only recognised posthumously. Liz Sockett FRS and Isabelle Moss reflect on her enduring legacy:
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Ancient proteins have been recovered from fossil relatives of rhinoceroses and other animals that are at least 18 million years old, according to evidence from two papers in Nature.
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#Paleosky 🧪
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July 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Ancient proteins have been recovered from fossil relatives of rhinoceroses and other animals that are at least 18 million years old, according to evidence from two papers in Nature.
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#Paleosky 🧪
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#Paleosky 🧪
Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift - Nature
The isolation of dental proteins from fossils deposited 1.5 million to 18 million years ago in the Turkana Basin in Kenya, a tropical region, demonstrate the promise of dental enamel for palaeoproteom...
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July 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global patterns of colouration complexity in the Paridae: Effects of climate and species characteristics across body regions | Journal of Animal Ecology | besjournals.onlineli... | #ornithology 🪶
July 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Global patterns of colouration complexity in the Paridae: Effects of climate and species characteristics across body regions | Journal of Animal Ecology | besjournals.onlineli... | #ornithology 🪶
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Two new suckermouth catfish species are described from the Eastern Zimbabwe Highlands freshwater ecoregion. Find out more about them here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#biodiversity #taxonomy #catfish
#biodiversity #taxonomy #catfish
July 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Two new suckermouth catfish species are described from the Eastern Zimbabwe Highlands freshwater ecoregion. Find out more about them here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#biodiversity #taxonomy #catfish
#biodiversity #taxonomy #catfish
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Molecules from 20-million-year-old rhino-relative teeth are among the oldest ever sequenced
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Ancient proteins rewrite the rhino family tree — are dinosaurs next?
Molecules from 20-million-year-old teeth are among the oldest ever sequenced.
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July 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Molecules from 20-million-year-old rhino-relative teeth are among the oldest ever sequenced
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Neanderthals were rendering animal bones for grease in present-day Germany roughly 125,000 years ago—much earlier than thought, research in #ScienceAdvances suggests.
Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago
Neanderthals intensively processed a minimum of 172 large mammals for grease and marrow fat, 125,000 years ago.
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July 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Neanderthals were rendering animal bones for grease in present-day Germany roughly 125,000 years ago—much earlier than thought, research in #ScienceAdvances suggests.
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Charles Darwin's Manuscripts & Papers online darwin-online.org.uk/manuscripts....
Darwin Online: Darwin Manuscripts & Papers
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July 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Charles Darwin's Manuscripts & Papers online darwin-online.org.uk/manuscripts....
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Trying to find my brother.
It's been 5 days
Trying to find my brother.
It's been 5 days
My brother is missing. He's been missing since Thursday, van parked at Battle Hill, Huntly, Aberdeenshire since Thursday.
Searches ongoing.
Please share especially if you know anyone in Northern Scotland.
Thank you.
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Searches ongoing.
Please share especially if you know anyone in Northern Scotland.
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Police Scotland North East
We are appealing for information to help trace 40-year-old Jonathan Parsons missing from Huntly.
Jonathan was last in Yule Square around 7.15am on Thursday, 3 July, 2025.
He is around 5’ 7” with...
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July 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Trying to find my brother.
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Trying to find my brother.
It's been 5 days
Fossilized gut contents elucidate the feeding habits of sauropod dinosaurs: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Fossilized gut contents elucidate the feeding habits of sauropod dinosaurs
Poropat et al. report the first sauropod gut contents found worldwide in a specimen
of Diamantinasaurus from the Cretaceous of Australia. These fully support previous
hypotheses of sauropod herbivory ...
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June 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Fossilized gut contents elucidate the feeding habits of sauropod dinosaurs: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
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In case anyone missed @archaeoalex.bsky.social's talk on using the ClassiCOL tool, it's now live on our YouTube channel! : youtu.be/CA36dn_zKfs?...
June 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In case anyone missed @archaeoalex.bsky.social's talk on using the ClassiCOL tool, it's now live on our YouTube channel! : youtu.be/CA36dn_zKfs?...
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The largest Palaeolithic cave art site in Eastern Iberia for #NationalCavesandKarstDay 🏺
The unusual techniques used to create the rock art make it unique in the region and it was some of our most-read research from 2023!
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
The unusual techniques used to create the rock art make it unique in the region and it was some of our most-read research from 2023!
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
June 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The largest Palaeolithic cave art site in Eastern Iberia for #NationalCavesandKarstDay 🏺
The unusual techniques used to create the rock art make it unique in the region and it was some of our most-read research from 2023!
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
The unusual techniques used to create the rock art make it unique in the region and it was some of our most-read research from 2023!
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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#JobFairy #PhD #Anthropology
A PhD position in the Virtual Anthropology Group at @univie.ac.at with #HEASVienna member #GerhardWeber is now available.
More information and details on our website 👇🔗
A PhD position in the Virtual Anthropology Group at @univie.ac.at with #HEASVienna member #GerhardWeber is now available.
More information and details on our website 👇🔗
PhD position in Virtual Anthropology Group - HEAS
The Virtual Anthropology group at University of Vienna (Prof. Gerhard Weber) is now offering a position as a Ph.D. candidate (PraeDoc) in the area of 3D dental morphology. The position is funded by th...
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June 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
#JobFairy #PhD #Anthropology
A PhD position in the Virtual Anthropology Group at @univie.ac.at with #HEASVienna member #GerhardWeber is now available.
More information and details on our website 👇🔗
A PhD position in the Virtual Anthropology Group at @univie.ac.at with #HEASVienna member #GerhardWeber is now available.
More information and details on our website 👇🔗
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Southern Chilean peatlands display unique ecological dynamics - this study sheds some light on the distribution and diversity of testate amoebae in these understudied systems: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#biodiversity #Patagonia #ecology
#biodiversity #Patagonia #ecology
June 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Southern Chilean peatlands display unique ecological dynamics - this study sheds some light on the distribution and diversity of testate amoebae in these understudied systems: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#biodiversity #Patagonia #ecology
#biodiversity #Patagonia #ecology
Polyadic Grooming Patterns and Network in a Free-Ranging Group of Japanese Macaques at Awajishima- American Journal of Primatology | Primates Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Polyadic Grooming Patterns and Network in a Free‐Ranging Group of Japanese Macaques at Awajishima
Grooming is the most common affiliative behavior in many primate species. While traditionally viewed as an exclusively dyadic interaction, polyadic grooming involving more than two individuals also o...
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June 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Polyadic Grooming Patterns and Network in a Free-Ranging Group of Japanese Macaques at Awajishima- American Journal of Primatology | Primates Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Functional and Morphological Differences in the Play Face and Full Play Face in Lowland Gorillas, a Hominid Species: Implications for the Evolutionary Roots of Smile and Laugh Face - Cordoni - 2025 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Functional and Morphological Differences in the Play Face and Full Play Face in Lowland Gorillas, a Hominid Species: Implications for the Evolutionary Roots of Smile and Laugh Face
An example of image capturing with OpenFace 2.0. In the three images (N, PF, and FPF), 3D facial landmarks (red/blue dots), head pose traking (blue/violet 3D polygons) and eye gaze traking (light gre...
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June 4, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Functional and Morphological Differences in the Play Face and Full Play Face in Lowland Gorillas, a Hominid Species: Implications for the Evolutionary Roots of Smile and Laugh Face - Cordoni - 2025 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Baboon travel progressions as a ‘social spandrel’ in collective animal behaviour
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Baboon travel progressions as a ‘social spandrel’ in collective animal behaviour
Abstract. How individuals in a group move relative to one another can influence both their survival and fitness. Spatial positioning has been well studied
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June 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Baboon travel progressions as a ‘social spandrel’ in collective animal behaviour
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Phylogenomics reveals the slow-burning fuse of diatom evolution | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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June 4, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Phylogenomics reveals the slow-burning fuse of diatom evolution | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tail of defence: an almost complete tail skeleton of Plateosaurus (Sauropodomorpha, Late Triassic) reveals possible defence strategies royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Tail of defence: an almost complete tail skeleton of Plateosaurus (Sauropodomorpha, Late Triassic) reveals possible defence strategies | Royal Society Open Science
In 2015, a partial skeleton of the Late Triassic dinosaur Plateosaurus trossingensis was excavated from Frick, Switzerland, and subsequently mounted at the Natural History
Museum of Vienna in 2021. Th...
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June 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Tail of defence: an almost complete tail skeleton of Plateosaurus (Sauropodomorpha, Late Triassic) reveals possible defence strategies royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...