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Pollen identification through convolutional neural networks: First application on a full fossil pollen sequence

Médéric Durand, Jordan Paillard, Marie-Pier Ménard, Thomas Suranyi, Pierre Grondin, Olivier Blarquez

published 30 Apr 2024

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Exploring the preservation of a parasitic trace in decapod crustaceans using finite elements analysis

Nathan L. Wright, Adiël A. Klompmaker, Elizabeth Petsios

published 16 Apr 2024

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Natural external plastron mold of the Triassic turtle Proterochersis: An unusual mode of preservation

Tomasz Szczygielski, Lorenzo Marchetti, Dawid Dróżdż

published 29 Mar 2024

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Powerful tool or too powerful? Early public discourse about ChatGPT across 4 million tweets

Reuben Ng, Ting Yu Joanne Chow

published 27 Mar 2024

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The potential use of mass timber in mid-to high-rise construction and the associated carbon benefits in the United States

Prakash Nepal, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Indroneil Ganguly, Vaibhav Kumar, Richard D. Bergman, Neelam C. Poudyal

published 20 Mar 2024

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Redescription of three fossil baleen whale skulls from the Miocene of Portugal reveals new cetotheriid phylogenetic insights

Rodrigo Figueiredo, Mark Bosselaers, Liliana Póvoas, Rui Castanhinha

published 13 Mar 2024

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Quantifying the effects of exceptional fossil preservation on the global availability of phylogenetic data in deep time

C. Henrik Woolley, David J. Bottjer, Frank A. Corsetti, Nathan D. Smith

published 14 Feb 2024

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Metagenomic analyses of 7000 to 5500 years old coprolites excavated from the Torihama shell-mound site in the Japanese archipelago

Luca Nishimura, Akio Tanino, Mayumi Ajimoto, Takafumi Katsumura, Motoyuki Ogawa, Kae Koganebuchi, Daisuke Waku, Masahiko Kumagai, Ryota Sugimoto, Hirofumi Nakaoka, Hiroki Oota, Ituro Inoue

published 24 Jan 2024

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Body size estimation from isolated fossil bones reveals deep time evolutionary trends in North American lizards

Sara J. ElShafie

published 05 Jan 2024

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Geometric morphometrics and paleoproteomics enlighten the paleodiversity of Pongo

Jülide Kubat, Ryan Paterson, Ioannis Patramanis, Graeme Barker, Fabrice Demeter, Arnaud Filoux, Ottmar Kullmer, Meaghan Mackie, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Nguyen Thi Mai Huong, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Sytha Pheng, Jessica Rippengal, Friedemann Schrenk, Viengkeo Souksavatdy, Lim Tze Tshen, Athiwat Wattanapituksakul, Wei Wang, Clément Zanolli, Enrico Cappellini, Anne-Marie Bacon

published 15 Dec 2023

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The oldest fossil bird-like footprints from the upper Triassic of southern Africa

Miengah Abrahams, Emese M. Bordy

published 29 Nov 2023

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Quaternary rodents of South Africa: A companion guide for cranio-dental identification

Pierre Linchamps, D. Margaret Avery, Raphaël Cornette, Christiane Denys, Thalassa Matthews, Emmanuelle Stoetzel

published 28 Nov 2023

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Reinforcing the idea of an early dispersal of Hippopotamus amphibius in Europe: Restoration and multidisciplinary study of the skull from the Middle Pleistocene of Cava Montanari (Rome, central Italy)

Beniamino Mecozzi, Alessio Iannucci, Marco Mancini, Daniel Tentori, Chiara Cavasinni, Jacopo Conti, Mattia Yuri Messina, Alex Sarra, Raffaele Sardella

published 22 Nov 2023

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