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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7487509

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/23531

Australian and New Zealand scientists have unearthed the remains of ancient wildlife in a cave near Waitomo on Aotearoa's North Island, the first time a large number of million-year-old fossils have been found—including an ancestor of the large flightless Kākāpō parrot.


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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

It never occurred to me until I read this headline, but I feel like the word "wildlife" implies that there also exists domesticated life.