Researchers at CarnegieMellon University have used fossils and soft robotics to recreate a 450-million-year-old marine animal, marking the emergence of paleobionics. Meanwhile, the @museumsvictoria Research Institute has challenged existing understanding of whale evolution. Additionally, scientists have discovered the world's first fully preserved megalodon tooth from a creature that lived 3.5 million years ago. The Economist has raised questions about the value of whales, considering their economic and ecological significance.
Through most of modern history the idea that the value of a whale was not discoverable through its market price would have seemed silly. But for three centuries whales have occupied a peculiar point where economics and the environment meet https://t.co/HvRm4Y9QpB 🐋
The world’s largest mammal lives and dies at the point where capitalism and conservation meet. In our essay we ask: what is the value of a whale? https://t.co/gyK2r6whDF 🐋
terrific piece on the changing price of whales by @GavinHJackson — an animal in whom's bulk the forces of capitalism and conservation have met and quarrelled for centuries https://t.co/paGCQEfZhT
What is a whale worth? Is it the price its fat can be sold for, or its value to the ecosystem? Can you tally up the joy in seeing the creatures break the ocean’s surface, or should you count the money put into vending machines for a hunk of its meat? https://t.co/A3kyqnb5ct 🐋
Talk about a mega find! Scientists discover world's first fully preserved megalodon tooth from creature that lived a 3.5 million years ago https://t.co/ozebKUAs7O https://t.co/L4QwEeW4VC
Groundbreaking new research from the @museumsvictoria Research Institute has turned upside down our previous understanding of the #Evolution of the largest animals ever––baleen #Whales https://t.co/P6f0XmFdMz
.@CarnegieMellon researchers bring a 450-million-year-old marine animal back using fossils & softbotics in paleobionics, a new field of study that uses extinct organisms to examine how biomechanical factors drove evolution. #NSFfunded https://t.co/cTuw98ZXUK 📷 CarnegieMellon https://t.co/4YOfaRskPd