#palaeontology

#palaeontology

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Although it's still the number one destination in the country to see weird stuff that the Victorians taxidermied, the Natural History Museum has been quietly getting into cutting edge technology in recent years, with the launch of its Visions of Nature AR experience and immersive film Our Story with David Attenborough. Now it takes a further step into the 21st century via a new collaboration with the popular international virtual gaming chain Sandbox VR (which has three branches in London).

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced, pushing back the genetic fossil record to more than 20 million years ago.

Around 1,000 eggs, some as big as 30 centimetres in diameter, have been found here in recent years in an area measuring less than a hectare.

We finally have some insights into the cranial morphology of the Denisovans, which had remained a mystery since their DNA was first identified in 2010.

Echidnas and another Australian oddity—the semi-aquatic platypus—are believed to have evolved from a common ancestor called Kryoryctes cadburyi that lived in Australia more than 100m years ago.

Richard Fortey, UK palaeontologist, extensively researched trilobites and their ecology, revealing insights about their distribution and using them to track continental positions.