A new species of pterosaur has been named Torukjara after the Toruk from James Cameron's Avatar films. Also, elephants have been discovered to use names for each other, the smallest ever hominid has been found, and much more!

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Sources:
Debris from the last galactic merger:
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/milky...

African elephants use specific namelike calls:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
https://www.sci.news/biology/elephant...

Whale injuries:
https://phys.org/news/202406vessel...
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.co...

New species of pterosaur Torukjara bandeirae:
https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024...

A marine reptile mystery has been solved:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/pac...

A new interpretation of Pikaia (it was upside down):
https://www.cell.com/currentbiology/...

New species of prehistoric giraffe Bramiscus micros:
https://palaeoelectronica.org/conten...

New small hominid species Buronius manfredschmidi:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/bur...

0:00 Introduction
0:24 Debris from the last galactic merger
1:43 SpaceX launch
2:32 Elephants use names for each other?
3:46 The causes of whale deaths
5:13 New pterosaur named after Avatar alien 'Toruk'
7:19 Prehistoric marine reptile mystery solved
8:49 A new interpretation of Pikaia (it was upside down)
10:23 New prehistoric giraffe species
11:07 The smallest hominid species found so far!
12:38 Outro