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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, Michael Pittman, Paul C Sereno, Larry D Martin, David A Burnham, Enpu Gong, Xing Xu, Yinan Wang   +8 more
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Photon-Counting Detector CT Scan of Dinosaur Fossils: Initial Experience [PDF]

Journal of Imaging
Beyond clinical areas, photon-counting detector (PCD) CT is innovatively applied to study paleontological specimens. This study presents a preliminary investigation into the application of PCD-CT for imaging large dinosaur fossils, comparing it with ...
Tasuku Wakabayashi, Kenji Takata, Soichiro Kawabe, Masato Shimada, Takeshi Mugitani, Takuya Yachida, Rikiya Maruyama, Satomi Kanai, Kiyotaka Takeuchi, Tomohiro Kotsuji, Toshiki Tateishi, Hideki Hyodoh, Tetsuya Tsujikawa   +12 more
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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, Uwe Hossfeld, Georgy S. Levit   +2 more
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Improving the relevance of paleontology to climate change policy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023
Paleontology has provided invaluable basic knowledge on the history of life on Earth. The discipline can also provide substantial knowledge to societal challenges such as climate change.
W. Kiessling, Jansen A. Smith, N. Raja
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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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Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future

Paleobiology, 2023
Non-technical Summary Researchers often use large databases to conduct their studies; however, they do not always provide credit, through citations, to the people who produced the data in the databases.
Jansen A. Smith, N. Raja, Thomas Clements, Danijela Dimitrijević, Elizabeth M. Dowding, E. Dunne, B. Gee, Pedro L. Godoy, Elizabeth M. Lombardi, Laura P. A. Mulvey, P. Nätscher, Carl J. Reddin, Bryan Shirley, R. Warnock, Á. Kocsis   +14 more
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Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology

Paleobiology, 2021
. As practitioners of a historical science, paleontologists and geoscientists are well versed in the idea that the ability to understand and to anticipate the future relies upon our collective knowledge of the past.
Pedro M. Monarrez, J. Zimmt, A. Clement, William Gearty, J. J. Jacisin, K. Jenkins, Kristopher M. Kusnerik, Ashley W. Poust, S. Robson, Judith A. Sclafani, K. Stilson, S. Tennakoon, Carmi Milagros Thompson   +12 more
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A Plea for a New Synthesis: From Twentieth-Century Paleobiology to Twenty-First-Century Paleontology and Back Again

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, Erynn H. Johnson, Elena R. Schroeter   +2 more
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