- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- archaeology@mander.xyz
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42158359
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Scientists found fossil extinct around 370 million years ago in Scotland
Fuck clickbaity headlines. And a fossil isn’t a organism anymore.
Also, it’s this one.
Here’s a good video about this that I watched the other day:
Link without pay wall https://archive.ph/LEcGT
I saw a really good rundown of this the other day on YouTube: “Presented by Joe Botting, independent palaeontologist and Honorary Research Fellow at the National Museum Wales”:
*fossil of an organism
i hear gene belcher, “land boner!”
Some real Flesh Gordon vibes
This is an article in the shitrag Torygraph and it doesn’t even include a link to the original paper!
There’s a preprint of the paper here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643340v1.full.pdf
My Hero! Thanks for posting!
Hmm, preprint, submitted 2025 March 17, appears to be taking a while to get past the review process to full publication. It’s fascinating how much we’ve learned to tell about biological processes by looking at the fossilization end products.
Soooo… let’s clone it and see what happens!
Easy there, Hammond!
Fossils don’t typically contain DNA
These have been studied for quite a while.
Thank you for making the one comment with any science value, on a science post. I learned about something new.
I think they’ll find it was my penis. And yes, it is alive
I came here to ensure this comment was added. You did your part!
I couldn’t let such a good opportunity go unexploited
A what now?
Edit: oh, extinct: (
Maybe its a protists like thing similar to coral? Idk
“new lifeform that became extinct around 370 million years ago”
Weirdest comments for a science community…
Well, trash. I already knew about these, but as fossils. This headline made me think they found a branch of them just growing in Scotland. But no, it is just the thing we already knew about. Not sure how they got any information that confirms they weren’t plants or fungi from fossils, but I guess that is the only newsworthy thing here. (Tubes, mostly looking at the branching of tubes and how they differ from any fruiting fungus is what I gather after reading the actual paper. I do think it is interesting that they also focused on how they are different from crustaceans. It would have been pretty interesting if those were crab trees.)
