Discovery of rare lecture notes from 1866 provides exceptional insights into the conceptualization and visualization of paleontology by Ernst Haeckel [PDF]
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
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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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]
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
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]
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
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 ...
Robert McAfee+5 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]
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 SEVEN COARSE-GRAINED PALEOGENE TETHYAN AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERAL SPECIES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN [PDF]
The modern taxonomical consideration is used for seven coarse-grained agglutinated benthic foraminiferal species which are belonging to six genera from four countries in the Tethys around the Atlantic Ocean USA and Europe (Spain, France and Poland ...
Haidar Salim Anan
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Automatic Recognition of Palaeobios Images Under Microscope Based on Machine Learning
The research of paleontology is an essential part of contemporary earth science. However, the time-consuming manual identification process has always been cumbrous in the field of paleontology.
Yuxuan Xu+4 more
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