paleoneurology

Tilly Edinger was one of those rare people who knew exactly what she wanted to do. After reading Othenio Abel's Principles of Vertebrate Paleontology, she had her calling: the study of ancient animals through their bones. She would go on to become one of the most significant paleontologists of the 20th ...

Both mothers began the Saturday Science program last year. They engage children by letting them “have fun and get dirty” while learning about lesser-known scientists, particularly women and minorities. Two dozen children sat cross-legged and wide-eyed, eager to dig for “dinosaur eggs” buried in the ...

Digital paleoneurology is a relatively new field of paleontology that uses computed tomography (CT) scans to show details of the inside of fossils by looking at negative spaces. Negative spaces are produced when, during decomposition, the soft tissues of the brain are replaced with sediment that surrounds ...

How cool would it be to go back in time and see how dinosaurs behaved in real life?? I think most people who've seen Jurassic Park (the original one…) would agree this would be pretty awesome. However, at the moment, the science behind both time travel and genetic manipulation of frog DNA is lacking ...

Actually it sent me on an hour long paleoneurology litt survey (my first) which turns out to mesh with some other stuff I'm thinking about much more closely and realistically than I'd have thought. Actually it already overlaps in places. Certainly that's all new to me as an option for comparative anatomy.

"The Yuka woolly mammoth specimen is the first mammoth [and large mammal] finding with the preserved brain from permafrost in the history of paleoneurology," Kharlamova told Live Science in an email. "And it is still [the] only mammoth specimen with the preserved brain," she said, describing the ...

Aware of the stir their paper could cause, the team carefully stated, “We hope that future research on comparative primate neuroanatomy, paleoneurology and functional neuroanatomy will provide insight about some of the unusually convoluted parts of Einstein's brain that we have described with little, ...

Paleoneurology - the study of ancient brains using fossils. Social neuroscience - this is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding how biological systems implement social processes and behavior. Social neuroscience gathers biological concepts and methods to inform and refine theories of social ...