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Deming Yang

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Assistant Professor of Anatomy at Midwestern University, Hominin evolution, eastern Africa, faunal change, teeth, stable isotopes, and Bayesian models
Downers Grove, IL sites.google.com/view/demingyan… Joined March 2019
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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 : doi.org/10.1080/027246…
www.tandfonline.com The first occurrence of Cainochoerus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Suidae) from the Upper Miocene... Cainochoerus is an extinct suid (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) taxon of very small size, found in multiple late Neogene sites in southern and eastern Africa. Despite its wide geographic distribution and ...
Deming Yang @DemingYang
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…
www.tandfonline.com The first occurrence of Cainochoerus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Suidae) from the Upper Miocene... Cainochoerus is an extinct suid (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) taxon of very small size, found in multiple late Neogene sites in southern and eastern Africa. Despite its wide geographic distribution and ...
Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont @ICP_MCrusafont Feb 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
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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: nature.com/articles/s4200…
www.nature.com Strontium isotope mapping of elephant enamel supports an integrated microsampling-modeling workflow... Communications Biology - Comparisons of 87Sr/86Sr data from the tusk and molar enamel of a zoo elephant suggest that a microsampling-modeling workflow is the best practice strategy for geospatial...
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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…
www.nature.com Strontium isotope mapping of elephant enamel supports an integrated microsampling-modeling workflow... Communications Biology - Comparisons of 87Sr/86Sr data from the tusk and molar enamel of a zoo elephant suggest that a microsampling-modeling workflow is the best practice strategy for geospatial...
KSL NewsRadio @kslnewsradio Mar 14, 2025
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
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