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Survival of fossils under extreme shocks induced by hypervelocity impacts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Experimental data are shown for survival of fossilized diatoms undergoing shocks in the GPa range. The results were obtained from hypervelocity impact experiments which fired fossilized diatoms frozen in ice into water targets.
McDermott, K. H.   +3 more
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The palaeontological collection stored in the Department of Geology of the National Museum of Natural History NAS of Ukraine as a scientific heritage

open access: yesGeo&Bio, 2019
The palaeontological collection of the Geological Department of the National Museum of Natural History NAS of Ukraine (NMNH NASU) is among the most valuable objects of the national scientific and cultural heritage. The article presents a brief analytical
G. V. Anfimova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Preservation of Arctic dinosaur remains from the Prince Creek Formation (Alaska, USA): A reply to Fiorillo (2016) [PDF]

open access: yesActa Palaeontologica Polonica, 2016
We thank Anthony Fiorillo (2016) for the concerns he raised regarding our characterizations of the Liscomb bonebed fossils in our paper describing Ugrunaaluk kuukpikenis from the Prince Creek Formation of Alaska, USA (Mori et al. 2016). We did not
Hirotsugu Mori   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rates and Rocks: Strengths and Weaknesses of Molecular Dating Methods

open access: yesFrontiers in Genetics, 2020
I present here an in-depth, although non-exhaustive, review of two topics in molecular dating. Clock models, which describe the evolution of the rate of evolution, are considered first.
Stéphane Guindon
doaj   +1 more source

A Revised Phylogenetic Classification for Viola (Violaceae)

open access: yesPlants, 2022
The genus Viola (Violaceae) is among the 40–50 largest genera among angiosperms, yet its taxonomy has not been revised for nearly a century. In the most recent revision, by Wilhelm Becker in 1925, the then-known 400 species were distributed among 14 ...
Thomas Marcussen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A new fossil Lucanidae subfamily (Coleoptera) from the Mesozoic of China [PDF]

open access: yesКавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2015
Litholamprima longimana Nikolajev et Ren, gen. et sp. n. of the family Lucanidae is described from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation. Fossils were collected from Chaomidian Village, Liaoning Province, China.
G.V. Nikolajev, D. Ren
doaj   +1 more source

Fossils upon Fossils [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1967
Vertebrate Paleontology By Alfred Sherwood Romer. Third edition. Pp. viii + 468. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1966.) $10; 72s.
openaire   +1 more source

Lamarck et Cuvier en révolution

open access: yesArts et Savoirs, 2020
In the context of the French Revolution, Lamarck fights Cuvier about the existence, upon the Earth of the past, of sudden catastrophes, which could be responsible of the extinction of the fossil species and prevent their transformations into the actual ...
Cédric Grimoult
doaj   +1 more source

A religious past to science: How Biblical stories have contributed to the construction of scientific knowledge

open access: yesMètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review
Stories captivate us by speaking to our imagination and by giving order and meaning to our world. Stories not only give us knowledge about society, but they can also shape our understanding of nature.
Daniel Gamito-Marques
doaj   +1 more source

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