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Homo Luzonensis: A new member of our family tree

Started by ITdactyl, April 13, 2019, 05:17:59 PM

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ITdactyl

April 13, 2019, 05:17:59 PM
It's a rare event to have my country featured in paleo news, what with the dearth of good fossils.

So it was a big and pleasant surprise that a new species* of hominin (I may be using the wrong term) from the Philippines was described.
*for the time being, it is considered a new species, but there are expectations that it may be lumped together with a similar species in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGN2DvDYWgc

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/04/new-species-ancient-human-discovered-luzon-philippines-homo-luzonensis/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/paleontologists-unearth-fossils-belonging-previously-unknown-species-ancient-human-180971941/

We still don't have dinosaurs (or pterosaurs), but at least the country has added a branch in the grand story of human evolution.

BlueKrono

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April 13, 2019, 06:54:20 PM
This is very exciting. Reminds me of when the Denisovans were discovered. There's so much yet we don't know!
We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there - there you could look at a thing monstrous and free." - King Kong, 2005

ITdactyl

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April 16, 2019, 10:47:53 AM
In case there are experts (or more knowledgeable enthusiasts) who're free to chime in:

Can taphonomic processes cause (relatively) straight foot or leg bones to become curved?

Neosodon

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April 18, 2019, 05:54:20 AM
This came out on the same day as the first black hole images too. Exiting day for science nerds.

"3,000 km to the south, the massive comet crashes into Earth. The light from the impact fades in silence. Then the shock waves arrive. Next comes the blast front. Finally a rain of molten rock starts to fall out of the darkening sky - this is the end of the age of the dinosaurs. The Comet struck the Gulf of Mexico with the force of 10 billion Hiroshima bombs. And with the catastrophic climate changes that followed 65% of all life died out. It took millions of years for the earth to recover but when it did the giant dinosaurs were gone - never to return." - WWD

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