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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

Silly palaeontologists. Discovering Felinae fossils is damn easy: you put a fossilised cardboard box on the floor, and the fossils will gather inside it!

I'm joking. Serious now, Wikipedia has some interesting bits of info, including the origin of the name (mageri- is from Magerit, a historical name for Madrid; and peignei is a homage to Stéphane Peigné, a palaeontologist friend of the authors) and a nice cladogram.

[–] Fuzzy_Dunlop@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Am I just tired, or is "new prehistoric" kind of funny?