Fossil Matter
Ramblings about paleontology, geology, archaeology, and history
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Bees in the Bones: Unexpected Fossil Discovery from Hispaniola
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In a small limestone cave in southwestern Dominican Republic, the fossil record is written not only in bones but inside them. The empty to...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Meteorites in Cuba? What’s Real and What Isn’t
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Remember the asteroid that probably wiped out the dinosaurs? That was an extreme case of a meteorite impact. Today, far smaller pieces of ro...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Body Size, Habitat, and History: Island-shrews of Puerto Rico and Cuba
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A new study by Turvey and colleagues (2025), just published in iScience , re-examines the Puerto Rican island-shrew Nesophontes edithae fro...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
A Proto-Caribbean Record of the Weissert Event from Cuba
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In the Sierra de los Órganos in western Cuba, the steep limestone mogotes preserve sediments that accumulated on the floor of the Proto-Cari...
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Jurassic Ferns from the Girón Group: A Window into Ancient Tropical Ecosystems
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A new study published in the Journal of South American Earth Sciences opens a small window on the flora and environmental conditions of tr...
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