PaleoZoen

29/06/2024

Neandertals (Also spelled Neanderthals, but pronounced the same) may have cared for a child with Down Syndrome. Honestly, I'm not sure why this is surprising or novel.

We have evidence of caretaking in other sources: The Old Man of La Chappelle is a good example. We have merged with "them" in a large portion of the world's population, therefore I hypothesize we were more similar than different, even culturally.

Individual’s survival into early childhood suggests a high level of community care

27/06/2024

Walking, not hopping, giant kangaroos with posture more like a T. Rex than modern kangaroos. The early inhabitants of Australia would likely have encountered these. Can you imagine a 2 meter/6'6" roo?

Scientists are piecing together a picture of how Australia's extinct giant kangaroos moved.

13/06/2024

DNA from prehistoric and modern-day people suggests that humans interbred with Neanderthals 47,000 years ago for a period lasting 6,800 years.

02/06/2024

I am working on an in-depth episode on the Tasmania "tiger". I have been interested in this unique marsupial predator since childhood. Is it actually extinct? Let's find out soon...

25/05/2024

I mentioned some rebranding for The Kilted Anthropologist and here it is. I've expanded the channel beyond anthropology and suspicious species. More to come soon!

Pic for tax: me holding the arm of a Kodiak bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi) in the comparative lab at ETSU in 2020.

07/05/2024

They also have ni***es in their armpits. 😁 Ahh, the majesty of nature.

03/05/2024

This is a sweet study, and I'm glad they did it. I do not think their findings are in any way surprising. Some bird species are very social and though responsible humans mean well, we can't meet the same needs other birds could fill. This is likely the same with any number of social pets we keep. Maybe my dogs need video chat friends, since one of them can't play nicely. 😁

Parrots preferred live Facebook Messenger exchanges to pre-recorded squawking.

02/05/2024

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05/04/2024

My Tallahassee friends: Tomorrow, join the FSU Department of Anthropology at our annual Dailey-Doran Fish Fry! Free, if you bring food. Come hang out with us. Eat, play, and make new friends!

01/01/2024

Happy New Year! Starting the year off right with a suspicious species: a frog that can jump but can't land!

23/12/2023

I've started a patreon, published a short article, and am working on a companion video for it. Slowly but surely, getting this thing running...

15/12/2023

Today's jam.

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14/11/2023

Bones can be "read" and reveal much about a person's life story. Here is a great example of how stress and strife can leave a record on bones. Touch the "translate" button to read it in English! Via Polska Antropologia Fizyczna

18/10/2023

Crabs: the body plan of choice.

Crab-like body plans have evolved independently at least five times. Biologists are still trying to figure out why.

13/10/2023

It should go without saying that Neandertals (we now spell it this way because the TH is pronounced as a T) were as smart as Early Modern Humans. But we are still undoing more than 100 years of an unearned stigma placed upon their species.

The fact that Neanderthals were able to make a fire and use it, among other things, for cooking, demonstrates their intelligence. "This confirms our observations and theories from previous studies," explains Diego Angelucci, archaeologist at the University of Trento and co-author of the study.

03/10/2023

Today I Learned..... Manatees have mammary glands under their arms......... and now you all know it, too.

It's a Fact!
The manatee's mammary glands are located behind the flippers. Mother manatees will nurse their calves from these mammary glands and they can swim while nursing, so they don't need to stop. They have mammary glands behind each flipper so they can potentially nurse two calves at once.
Calves depend on their mothers for 1-2 years before being weaned.
Learn more at www.savethemanatee.org/facts

29/09/2023

Horses did go extinct in North America around 10,000-ish years ago, but were reintroduced by the Spanish. Some were abandoned and roamed the plains, being adopted by Indigenous Americans before making contact with Europeans.

Students often learn in history class that the Spaniards brought horses to the New World in the 1500s, but the fossil record shows horses actually originated in North America at least 55 million years ago and roamed the continent before becoming extinct at the end of the last Ice Age, about 10,000 y

29/09/2023

https://www.livescience.com/ice-age-rock-art-amazon.html?fbclid=IwAR1_t7pcIndqGectOpnZX3FWHVjUJQkU-VkW2XPjtem6RV0JnwbXHALy4sI

Ice age people painted these animals 12,600 years ago.

25/08/2023

Never a dull moment in this field.

A new fossil ape from an 8.7-million-year-old site in Türkiye is challenging long-accepted ideas of human origins and adding weight to the theory that the ancestors of African apes and humans evolved in Europe before migrating to Africa between nine and seven million years ago.

21/08/2023

When a conversation about your kilt turns to questions about human evolution, that's a great day. The Kilted Anthropologist strikes again! 💀❤️
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17/08/2023

Let's play WHAT'S IN MY SPORRAN, today! 2 deer antler tools and a hammer stone for making stone tools. 🤣

04/08/2023

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-china-human-lineage.html

A team of paleontologists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with colleagues from Xi'an Jiaotong University, the University of York, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Research Center on Human Evolution, has found evidence of a previously unknown human lineage. I...

30/06/2023

Scientists say that the tomb is crammed with crocs, all mummified in a previously underrepresented process.