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Megantereon kills Eucladoceros.

by Mauricio Anton

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Women in Science Interactive

Women in Science, a new interactive tool, presents the latest available data for countries at all stages of development. Produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, the tool lets you explore and visualize gender gaps in the pipeline leading to a research career, from the decision to get a doctorate degree to the fields of research women pursue and the sectors in which they work.

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Enormous Underwater Fossil Graveyard Found

“National Science Foundation-funded anthropologists and paleontologists uncovered what could be the largest single collection of lemur remains ever found. What’s more, they found it in a most unusual place—hidden in a series of underwater caves in a remote desert region of Madagascar. 

Described as a lemur graveyard, the discovery of hundreds of potentially thousand-year old skeletons make it one of the most unique sites in the world. The finding, reported in this video, could be important for understanding human relatives and other animals and result in a totally new era for underwater paleontology.”

(Source: National Science Foundation)

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“#FossilFriday More on variation between Omo 2 (left) and Omo 1 (right): rear view"

(Source: @ChrisStringer65 on Twitter)

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Teeth of the African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus).

Don't their premolars look a little like seal post-canine teeth? 

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Some showy bovids. Top: Great Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) Bottom: Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus)

Photos taken in Kruger National Park, SA

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"Roy Chapman Andrews holding baby antelope caught by J. McKenzie Young, Mongolia, 1928", from the AMNH's Digital Collections of the Central Asiatic Expeditions. 

(Side note: I'm guessing the antelope is the Mongolian Gazelle - Procapra subgutturosa)