🚨 New work in #OpenAcces! 🚨
Our #dentalmicrowear study on cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) shows they had locally adapted, flexible foraging strategies in SE Europe during late MIS 3. 🐻🌿
Shedding light on their ecology & extinction.
Read it here 👉
doi.org/10.1016/j.pala…
Dental microwear (Paleontology 🦕)
Dental microwear analysis is a method to infer diet and behavior in extinct animals, especially in fossil specimens. It has been used on a variety of taxa, including hominids, amphicyonids, canids, ursids, hyaenids, equids, tragulids, diprotodontids, varanids […]
#DentalMicrowear provides clues to dietary habits of #lepidosauria www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/8849_ENG_... @ERC_Research #palaeontology #paleontology #anthropology #evolution #herbivores (Ill./©: Daniela E. Winkler, Michelle Aimée Oesch)
