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Paper by Yuhui Zhuang et al Proc B (doi.org/10.1098/rspb...)

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🦠 In a totally not petrifying story, a team in USA 'resurrected' and grew some 40k year old bacteria encased in Alaskan permafrost. Hey, its gonna melt soon anyway, best find out what will happen doi.org/10.1029/2025...

🪱 First body fossil of a leech discovered in Silurian of Wisconsin indicates hirudinidan origins about 200 million years (?!) before previous estimates peerj.com/articles/199...

🧽 A new source of evidence of Pre-Cambrian animals comes from molecular fossils. Steranes in Neoproterozoic rocks were likely produced by desmosponges, before the Cambrian explosion
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🦎 A fossil squamate from the Jurassic of Scotland has a mix of snake and lizard like features which makes snake evolution even more complicated. Say hello to Breugnathair. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

💀 A Chinese team painfully reconstructed the smushed Yuxian 2 cranium and placed in the Homo longi clade (with Denisovans?) thus lots of ghost ranges and new time scale of human evolution www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Here is a link to the proper paper we discuss, a really interesting example of a palaeontological whoopsie. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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