Paleontology

FluffyMcDeath said:
Antarctica can become ice free again and perhaps a forested but there can't be 7 billion people alive on a planet like that - the rest of the environment would be untenable. Further, it would take a few thousand years at least (probably tens or hundreds) for the plants and animals to adapt to the months of daylight and darkness that characterise the year at the poles. We are warming at a degree every few decades - far too fast for biological adaptation.
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You miss the point. The earth was once far, far warmer than it is today. All the doomsday prophecies that comes with the AGW cult are laughable.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
You might like it to be 20 degrees warmer in the winter. How do you feel about it being 20 degrees warmer in the summer too?
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I'm in South FL. I don't want anything warmer, trust me. Doesn't change the fact AGW is a hoax.
 
redrumloa said:
You miss the point. The earth was once far, far warmer than it is today. All the doomsday prophecies that comes with the AGW cult are laughable.
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No. YOU miss the point. The earth HAS been hotter in the past, and also colder - and these transitions, even when they occur over thousands of years exterminate vast numbers of species. There were no humans around when the Antarctic had forests. If climate change causes all of the things humans depend on to go extinct or to become insufficiently productive enough to keep us alive, and we, in our desperation finish them off by over-consuming them into extinction, the cockroaches will not lament our passing, but that does not make it "not a big deal".

It's tempting to hope that our technologies and our science can save us from such a future, but no-one seems to listen to the science, and the technology will fall apart once the food riots set in and nobody is fixing the power lines and water pumps. It can all turn to crap very fast and if most of the world is functioning fine then someone will come to save you - but if even just large parts of the world break down (Europe, US and China particularly as they are where the heat will start taking out crops pretty soon) there will be no-one coming for you. Once industrial society starts to break down then we will all be in very serious trouble and most people will be trapped where they are or die on the march to somewhere better (or be shot trying to cross the fence to somewhere better).
 
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Daemonelix fossil aka "Devil's Corkscrews"
 
Ancient Siberia was home to previously unknown humans, say scientists
DNA analysis reveals hardy group genetically distinct from Eurasians and East Asians


The archaeological site near the Yana River in Siberia where two 31,000-year-old milk teeth were found. Photograph: Elena Pavlova/Nature

It was cold, remote and involved picking fights with woolly mammoths – but it seems ancient Siberia 30,000 years ago was home to a hardy and previously unknown group of humans. Scientists say the discovery could help solve longstanding mysteries about the ancestors of native North Americans.
 
Humans may have reached Europe by 210,000 years ago
By 40,000 years later, Neanderthals had taken over the site.
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A view of the Apidima 1 skull from behind (left), above (center), and below (right). The scale bar represents 5 cm.

A few fossilized bones from the back of a skull may prove that our species spread into Eurasia much earlier than previously suspected. A new study of the partial skull, which was excavated from Apidima Cave in southern Greece 40 years ago, suggests that the fossil is Homo sapiens and that it’s roughly 210,000 years old. That makes it the oldest member of our species ever found outside of Africa.
 

Earliest definitive evidence of people in Americas​

Footprints at White Sands

Humans reached the Americas at least 7,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new findings.
The topic of when the continent was first settled from Asia has been controversial for decades.
Many researchers are sceptical of evidence for humans in the North American interior much earlier than 16,000 years ago.
Now, a team working in New Mexico has found scores of human footprints dated to between 23,000 and 21,000 years old.
 

Largest-ever millipede fossil found on Northumberland beach​

Scientists say they have discovered the largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede on a beach in Northumberland, totally by chance.
The millipede, known as Arthropleura, is thought to have been more than 8ft (2.5m) long. It would have weighed about seven stone (50kg).
The fossil segment was first spotted in 2018 when a large block of sandstone fell on to a beach at Howick Bay.
It will be displayed in Cambridge's Sedgwick Museum next year.
 

Members of our species were in Western Europe around 54,000 years ago​

At least one child left behind a baby tooth to prove it.​

According to a recent study, a child’s tooth unearthed from an old layer of a cave floor in Southern France belonged to a member of our species. If so, the tooth is now the oldest evidence of Homo sapiens living in Europe, and its presence means that our species shared Europe (or parts of it) with Neanderthals for at least 10,000 years. But other fossils from the site suggest that the Pleistocene tale of two species was more complex than we’ve realized.
 
Again not Palaeontology but pretty auld:

Oldest full sentence in first alphabet is about head lice​

"May this [ivory] tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard."​

Archaeologists excavated this engraved ivory comb at an ancient site in Israel.

Archaeologists excavated this engraved ivory comb at an ancient site in Israel.

Several years ago, archaeologists unearthed a small ivory comb at Tel Lachish in Israel, once a major Canaanite city-state in the second millennium BCE. But it wasn't until last December that someone realized the comb had an inscription using early pictograph symbols of the first alphabet. Once deciphered, the inscription turned out to be a spell for preventing an infestation of head lice, according to a new paper published in the Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology.
 
I found this story pretty interesting. Looks kinda crocodiley in the top picture. Rest of the story via the link:

Researchers look a dinosaur in its remarkably preserved face​

Washed out to sea, a giant beast and its armored skin were left in pristine condition.​

Researchers look a dinosaur in its remarkably preserved face


Borealopelta mitchelli found its way back into the sunlight in 2017, millions of years after it had died. This armored dinosaur is so magnificently preserved that we can see what it looked like in life. Almost the entire animal—the skin, the armor that coats its skin, the spikes along its side, most of its body and feet, even its face—survived fossilization. It is, according to Dr. Donald Henderson, curator of dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, a one-in-a-billion find.

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