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Tracking a “Prehistoric Pompeii” , Rhinoland and Crocodilia: New Discoveries And Interpretations Of Ipolytarnóc (N Hungary) Lower Miocene Track Site [PDF]

open access: yesGeoconservation Research, 2021
The transnational Novohrad-Nógrád Geopark situated in Northern Hungary and Southern Slovakia has several important Neogene fossil sites developed for geotourism. One of them is the lower Miocene paleontological locality complex at Ipolytarnóc , which has
Laszlo Kordos   +2 more
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European UNESCO Geoparks: Introduction to Part II [PDF]

open access: yesGeoconservation Research, 2021
The concept of the volume is to survey all the key geoparks throughout Europe in terms of their palaeontological significance. The second set of 36 articles in this Part cover the long span of geological time from the Triassic to the Quaternary, arranged
Michael Benton
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Paleontological Heritage and its Conservation in the UNESCO European Geoparks. [PDF]

open access: yesGeoconservation Research, 2021
Together, places of scientific, historical or cultural significance within a region and the artefacts uncovered therefrom and displayed in museums and collections make up the total heritage of the region in question. Seemingly lifeless places and objects
Dan Grigorescu
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Variation and process of life history evolution in insular dwarfism as revealed by a natural experiment

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2023
Islands are a classic focus for evolutionary studies. One topic of great interest has been the evolution of “dwarfs,” significantly smaller island mammals relative to their continental counterparts.
Shoji Hayashi   +9 more
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Microscopic recognition of micro fossils in carbonate rocks based on convolutional neural network

open access: yesShiyou shiyan dizhi, 2021
The identification of microfossils in carbonate rocks with thin-section observation is of great significance for the study of sedimentary environment, but the traditional method by manual identification is highly experience required and is greatly ...
Xiaolu YU   +4 more
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True colours or red herrings?: colour maps for finite-element analysis in palaeontological studies to enhance interpretation and accessibility

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2021
Accessibility is a key aspect for the presentation of research data. In palaeontology, new data is routinely obtained with computational techniques, such as finite-element analysis (FEA).
Stephan Lautenschlager
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Refined Interpretation of the Pistillate Flower in Ceratophyllum Sheds Fresh Light on Gynoecium Evolution in Angiosperms

open access: yesFrontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022
Molecular phylogenetic analyses have revealed a superclade of mesangiosperms with five extant lineages: monocots, eudicots, magnoliids, Ceratophyllum and Chloranthaceae. Both Ceratophyllum and Chloranthaceae are ancient lineages with a long fossil record;
Dmitry D. Sokoloff   +6 more
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The Clicking Elateroidea from Chinese Mesozoic Deposits (Insecta, Coleoptera)

open access: yesInsects, 2020
Recent molecular studies have suggested that the clicking beetle families Elateridae, Eucnemidae, Throscidae, and Cerophytidae evolved in the Jurassic and diversified in the Cretaceous.
Jyrki Muona, Huali Chang, Dong Ren
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How Technology Has Thrown Us Out of Balance with Nature and Why We Need to Get Back In

open access: yesMolecular Frontiers Journal, 2020
We have created a technology-based environment in an effort to control our world, but we need to understand that the biological forces that shaped us continue to play a role in our future. As more and more species go extinct because of human activity, we
Donald Johanson
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Caradiophyodidae, a New Family of Micro-Wasps (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea) Based on the Description of Caradiophyodus saradae gen. et sp. nov. in Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber

open access: yesLife, 2023
The female micro-wasp in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber is described as a new genus and species in the extinct family Caradiophyodidae fam. nov. (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea). Features of the specimen are its small body size (1.3 mm), no elbows, elongated,
George Poinar, Fernando E. Vega
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