A virtual world of paleontology [PDF]
Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2014 Computer-aided visualization and analysis of fossils has revolutionized the study of extinct organisms. Novel techniques allow fossils to be characterized in three dimensions and in unprecedented detail. This has enabled paleontologists to gain important
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Laser-Stimulated Fluorescence in Paleontology [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Fluorescence using ultraviolet (UV) light has seen increased use as a tool in paleontology over the last decade. Laser-stimulated fluorescence (LSF) is a next generation technique that is emerging as a way to fluoresce paleontological specimens that ...
Thomas G Kaye, Amanda R Falk, Xing Xu
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Discovery of rare lecture notes from 1866 provides exceptional insights into the conceptualization and visualization of paleontology by Ernst Haeckel [PDF]
Vertebrate Zoology, 2022 Here we report on a recently discovered student script of a lecture on paleontology given by Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919). The script dates to the summer semester of 1866, comprises 63 pages, and provides an overview of fossil invertebrate and mainly fossil
Ingmar Werneburg +2 more
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The Rising of Paleontology in China: A Century-Long Road
Biology, 2022 In this paper, the history of paleontology in China from 1920 to 2020 is divided into three major stages, i.e., 1920–1949, 1949–1978, and 1979–2020. As one of the first scientific disciplines to have earned international fame in China, the development of
Zhonghe Zhou
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Biology, 2022 In this paper, I will briefly discuss the elements of novelty and continuity between twentieth-century paleobiology and twenty-first-century paleontology.
Marco Tamborini
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Didactic Methods for Palentology Teaching in the Brazilian Basic Education [PDF]
Anuário do Instituto de Geociências, 2018 Due to the Paleontology teaching deficiency in the Brazilian Basic Education, an effort to develop new didactic methods have been applied in order to the improvement students learning.
Bruna Borba Dias, Rodrigo Milek Martin
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Long-Term Retention of Diverse Paleontologists Requires Increasing Accessibility
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Geoscience encompasses a variety of scientific subdisciplines aimed at exploring, understanding, and predicting global phenomena. Yet despite its global reach, the geosciences are the least diverse of the STEM disciplines.
Aja Mia Carter +2 more
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Zur Geschichte der Geowissenschaften im Museum für Naturkunde zu Berlin. Teil 6: Geschichte des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts und Museums der Universität Berlin 1910–2004 [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2004 Die Entwicklung des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts und Museums der Universität Berlin von einer Institution, die Geologie zusammen mit Paläontologie als eine Einheit vertrat, über eine Institution, die eine geotektonische Ausrichtung hatte, zu ...
W. Gross, H.-P. Schultze
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New species of the ground sloth Parocnus from the late Pleistocene-early Holocene of Hispaniola
Vertebrate Anatomy, Morphology, Palaeontology, 2021 Parocnus dominicanus sp. nov. represents a new species of megalonychid ground sloth from the Altagracia Province of southeastern Dominican Republic. Specimens of multiple individuals, including one associated partial skeleton, were recovered from two ...
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Zur Geschichte der Geowissenschaften im Museum für Naturkunde zu Berlin. Teil 6: Geschichte des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts und Museums der Universität Berlin 1910–2004 [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2004 Die Entwicklung des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Instituts und Museums der Universität Berlin von einer Institution, die Geologie zusammen mit Paläontologie als eine Einheit vertrat, über eine Institution, die eine geotektonische Ausrichtung hatte, zu ...
W. Gross, H.-P. Schultze
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