paleobiology
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Will We Ever Be Able to Clean Up All Our Trash?
We die and decompose, but a growing portion of our garbage lives on. Your great-grandfather’s bones have become organic matter in the soil, but the same cannot be said for the Mr. Goodbar wrapper he discarded 80 years ago today. Our landfills are poorly organised museums, robustly endowed and expanding by the second. Some, of…
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Discovery Of Extinct Burrowing Bat Tells Mysterious Story About New Zealand
All but three land mammal species living on New Zealand today were brought there by modern humans, beginning around 800 years ago – and all three of those native mammal species are bats. But a newly discovered bat fossil suggests that there may be more species hiding in the isle’s ancient rock. Perhaps the mammal-poor…
