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Mini pig cuteness🚨: we found fossils of a mini pig (Cainochoerus) in the southern Kenyan Rift, near Narok, the first reporting of Cainochoerus at the site (Lemudong’o). Link to the article @JVP_vertpaleo :
Deming Yang
@DemingYang
Assistant Professor of Anatomy at Midwestern University, Hominin evolution, eastern Africa, faunal change, teeth, stable isotopes, and Bayesian models
- Thank you ICP for the coverage! It's a great pleasure working with you all! The article is free to access via tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…🗞️Mini-pig with a big story: bit.ly/4rMinJb New fossil discoveries document the presence of an extinct and unusually small pig, Cainochoerus, in eastern Africa during the late Miocene (~6 Ma). The species was far smaller than any living African pig
- 20 years ago, on April 22, 2005, Misha the zoo elephant was moved from Vallejo, CA to Salt Lake City, UT. Her relocation inspired a suite of studies about isotope turnover, including my recent one published in @CommsBio Learn more about the study here:
- The KSL also reported on our recent work published in @CommsBio and what Misha can teach us about forensics and paleoecology. Our original paper: nature.com/articles/s4200…Results from research made possible by an elephant named Misha are guiding scientists and may impact the illegal ivory trade. kslnewsradio.com/?p=2192606 #elephants #hoglezoo #utahnews
- The University of Utah @UUtah wrote a great article about our recently published paper in Communications Biology. The link to the article here: attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/m… link to our original article here: nature.com/articles/s4200…
