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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 4h

Learn more about the bearded vulture, which historically accumulated human-made materials such as strings, baskets, and bolts in the cliffs of southern Spain.

www.discovermagazine.com/vultures-sta...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 18h

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions.

phys.org/news/2025-09...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 22h

As many as 30,000 Romans fled the Pompeii ruined region in A.D. 79. But some returned, a new study reveals, and the city limped on as a fragile, ashen shantytown.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/s...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 1d

Scientifically named Galgadraco zephyrius, a recently discovered species represents the first Brazilian azhdarchid pterosaur and bears striking similarities to a species from the Haţeg Basin of Romania.

www.sci.news/paleontology...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 1d

A set of fossilized footprints discovered in northern Arizona has revealed the silent journey of a prehistoric arachnid that walked the Earth around 260 million years ago.

dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/foss...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 1d

A 200-year-old rock painting in South Africa may depict a long-extinct tusked reptile, suggesting the Indigenous San people recognized fossils.

allthatsinteresting.com/south-africa...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 2d

Researchers uncovered a fossil fish that rewrites the evolutionary history of otophysans, which today dominate freshwater ecosystems.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 2d

Learn about the first Neanderthal tracksites found in the Iberian Peninsula, featuring footprints from adults, adolescents, and children.

www.discovermagazine.com/neanderthal-...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 2d

Microbes in Japan’s iron-rich hot springs reveal how early life on Earth may have thrived in toxic, low-oxygen oceans billions of years ago.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 3d

Fossil ear bones from a 67-million-year-old fish reveal that freshwater species evolved their sensitive hearing in the ocean before moving inland, reshaping the story of fish evolution.

phys.org/news/2025-09...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 3d

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos.

phys.org/news/2025-10...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 3d

The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 4d

A new study led by a Yale researcher suggests that planetesimals in the early solar system emerged from a succession of high-energy collisions.

news.yale.edu/2025/10/01/p...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 4d

Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater on Mars once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 4d

Scientists have discovered fresh signs that Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, could potentially house alien life deep within its subterranean seas.

nypost.com/2025/10/01/s...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 5d

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller marine creatures.

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 5d

Scientists discovered 200-year-old rock art in South Africa depicting a tusked creature, possibly linked to the ancient horned serpent of San legend.

www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 5d

The fossil of a new species of Jurassic reptile, understood to be an ancient ancestor to lizards and snakes, has been discovered on the Isle of Skye.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 6d

It might be among the first mammals to go extinct in North America after colonization. But can scientists prove it was even a distinct species?

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 6d

Scientists discovered a new 9-ton duck-billed dinosaur that lived 75 million years ago in what is now New Mexico.

www.the-journal.com/articles/duc...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 6d

Centuries-old mummies from the Andes of Colombia have been digitally unmasked and virtually reconstructed, revealing how they may have looked during their lifetimes.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 7d

Almost 200 engravings created around 12,000 years ago have been discovered in Saudi Arabia, including depictions of camels etched into cliff faces over 40 metres high.

www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 7d

Earth’s chemistry stabilized just 3 million years after the Solar System formed, with a collision with Theia likely delivering the ingredients for life.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 7d

A new ichthyosaur species, Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, has been identified in Germany, marked by a swordfish-like overbite and distinct skeletal features.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Earth Archives @eartharchives.bsky.social · 8d

A new study of ancient, extinct fish known as placoderms provides another piece of the evolutionary puzzle about our deep time, aquatic ancestors.

theconversation.com/many-animals...

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