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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · 5d

RIP Dr Jane Goodall 🐒

Glad I had the chance to see her delivering a message of hope in person a couple years ago back

#janegoodall #hope

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 19d

A sand quarry in Ecuador has yielded South America’s first amber with bio-inclusions, including a spider's web and a collection of mosquitoes, beetles, flies, wasps and biting midges that lived 112 million years ago

Stunning amber deposits hold insects from the time of the dinosaurs

A sand quarry in Ecuador has yielded South America’s first amber with bio-inclusions, including a spider's web and a collection of mosquitoes, beetles, flies, wasps and biting midges that lived 112 million years ago

www.newscientist.com

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · Jun 19

Denisovans finally have a face 💀

This is huge! #paleoanthropology

First ever skull from ‘Denisovan’ reveals what ancient people looked like

Ancient proteins and calcified dental plaque identify heavy-browed fossil from China as a Denisovan.

www.nature.com

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · May 27

The spectacular Tupandactylus navigans being displayed at the University of São Paulo’s Geoscience Museum 🏛️

#paleontology #decolonizescience

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Biological Anthropology @bioanth.bsky.social · May 27

A Neanderthal Left A Fingerprint On This Rock, Possibly While Painting A Face On It

This is only the second Neanderthal fingerprint we've ever seen, and the first that was made intentionally.

www.iflscience.com

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · May 21

A crise climática já está aqui 👇

EcoDebate @ecodebate.com.br · May 20

Impactos socioeconômicos e na saúde da crise climática

Este artigo documenta as principais preocupações e descobertas que tratam da crise climática global e seus profundos impactos em diversas esferas da vida

tinyurl.com/hsea2c59

Impactos socioeconômicos e na saúde da crise climática

Este artigo documenta as principais preocupações e descobertas que tratam da crise climática global e seus profundos impactos em diversas esferas da vida

tinyurl.com

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · May 21

Excited to start the paleohistology phase of my postdoc project 🔬

#science #paleontology

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · May 21

Imagino, mas saibam que admiro o que fazem e os parabenizo

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · May 21

Não desanimem! Continuem seu trabalho de conscientização

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · Mar 13

Mesozoic mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Mesozoic mammaliaforms illuminate the origins of pelage coloration

Pelage coloration, which serves numerous functions, is crucial to the evolution of behavior, physiology, and habitat preferences of mammals. However, little is known about the coloration of Mesozoic m...

www.science.org

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · Mar 3

Ancient Beaches Testify To A Long-ago Ocean On Mars
astrobiology.com/2025/03/anci... #Astrobiology #Mars #Oceanography

Ancient Beaches Testify To A Long-ago Ocean On Mars - Astrobiology

A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to have once been the site of an ancient sea, providing further evidence that the planet ...

astrobiology.com

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Dr. Jasmina Wiemann @jwiemann.bsky.social · Feb 24

Apply now for SVP’s Futures Award! 🦕

This award ($5,000 USD) is intended to support a summer research experience for current undergraduate students (incl. community colleges) who are Black, Indigenous, and/or members of other racial or ethnic minority groups!

Link: vertpaleo.org/svp-futures-...

SVP Futures Award – Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

vertpaleo.org

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · Feb 24

Triste é aquele que, dentro do sistema capitalista, busca um trabalho com função social

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · Feb 18

🚨Croc paper alert!

Please welcome Thilastikosuchus scutorectangularis 🐊, the oldest notosuchian from South America and the first crocodyliform from the Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil!

Happy to be part of this team. Huge thanks to Joyce for being invited to collaborate! #paleontology

Anatomical description and systematics of a new notosuchian (Mesoeucrocodylia; Crocodyliformes) from the Quiricó Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Sanfranciscana Basin, Brazil

Notosuchians comprise a clade of mostly terrestrial crocodyliforms generally found in Cretaceous Gondwanan deposits. They evolved into many forms and some species show convergences with mammalian f...

www.tandfonline.com

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · Feb 18

Thanks Marcos!

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · Feb 15

Essa obsessão do governo com a margem equatorial é o “drill, baby, drill” da centro-esquerda brasileira

Estamos em 2025, passando de 1.5C, a todo vapor rumo a 3C e os caras falando de enriquecer com óleo

Uma esquerda ecossocialista é urgente! #emergênciaclimática

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · Feb 7

#FossilFriday - Mariliasuchus amarali Carvalho & Bertini 1999, a small sphagesaurian (sensu Ruiz et al., 2021) that helped start the current boom in notosuchian research back in the late 90s 🐊

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · Feb 5

Needless to say a US occupation of Palestine is yet another war crime…

It is a sovereign nation and belongs to Palestinians only 🇵🇸

#FreePalestine

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · Jan 28

Deepseek is actually excellent news for the climate 🌎

Big tech was all in into building massive new data centers with the equivalent energy and water usage of entire countries.

Some crazy mfs were talking about burning even more coal to power new models

It is obvious now that we don’t need this

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · Jan 27

Viva a América Latina 🇨🇴🇲🇽🇵🇦🇧🇷!

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · Jan 26

Deported Brazilians reported being handcuffed, beaten, choked and some received death threats by American agents during the flight, even within Brazilian air space

This ain’t the 20th century anymore. Trump is in for a surprise if he thinks this will happen without a response…

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · Jan 23

Remember the early 2010s, when the space/science community on the internet was filled with re-edited Cosmos videos, awesome science songs by Melodysheep and healthy amounts of skepticism?

You know you’re in trouble when Carl Sagan is replaced by Elon Musk …

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Valentino Lasso🌿 @valentinolasso.bsky.social · Jan 22

I know this sentiment is well shared, but every once in a while I think about how beautifully powerful and inspiring these paintings are.

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · Jan 22

Something ...small...is coming 🐊

Croc lovers rejoice! for a brand new fossil species is about to emerge from Brazil, and its not what you think...

#crocodylomorphs #paleontology #paleontologiabrasileira

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Dr. Daniel Martins dos Santos 🐊 @paleodaniel.bsky.social · Jan 21

Being a geologist and a planetary science enthusiast, it’s been sad to witness the space community degenerate into far-right Musk bros…

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