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This week in deep time

What is new in fossil and Earth science this week?

Scientists publish new findings about fossils, rocks and water every week. Most of them are about places and times this site does not yet cover, so they are not here. When a finding does connect to a town, a period, an ocean or a river we already explain, it gets a post that quotes the scientists and shows you where to read more. When nothing connects, there is no post that week.

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The posts

  1. A fossil that may hold the oldest sign of a flower

    Scientists describe a fossil from the Permian that may show the oldest known part of a flowering plant. What they said, and where that world sits on this site.

  2. A dinosaur bone that kept the mark of an infection

    Scientists read a swelling on a dinosaur's shinbone as the trace of a skin infection that reached the bone. What they said, and where it fits on this site.

How a story gets in

  1. It has to come from a scientific paper or a public science agency, and we link to that source.
  2. It has to connect to a page this site already holds, so you can go and read the evidence behind it.
  3. The scientists are quoted in their own words. Our sentences explain those words and add no facts of their own.
  4. The same discovery is never written up twice, and a quiet week is left quiet.

Compiled with AI assistance from the sources listed. Every quotation was checked against a saved copy of its source, and every line was checked by Triassic Water editors before publishing. Posts are signed Triassic Water editors.

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