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🦴 New traces of bioerosion, made by ancient termites, beetles and mammals, have been discovered on dinosaur and turtle bones from the Late Cretaceous Haţeg Basin in Romania. (1/3)

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➡️ Find out more by accessing the full study in @fr.pensoft.net: doi.org/10.3897/fr.29.189421 🔗 Check out our latest guest blog post written by the research team: blog.pensoft.net/2026/10/13/n... (2/3)

doi.orgNot only boring issues: bioerosion on bones from the Upper Cretaceous of the Haţeg Basin (Romania) and the implications for carcass decomposition on Haţeg IslandBioerosion of fossil bones provides insights into trophic relationships as well as carcass decomposition processes in past ecosystems. Despite this potential, however, exhaustive documentation of trac...

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📷 Image captions: Figure 1. Palaeoart reconstruction of the Haţeg Island coastal ecosystem, showing the diverse vertebrate fauna. Figure 2. Palaeoart reconstruction of the Haţeg Island inland ecosystem. Illustrated by Peter Nickolaus © Peter Nickolaus (3/3)