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In The Field – Polish-Mongolian Expeditions 1963 – 1971 (Part 1)

December 28th, 2019 | by Guest Blogger

Of the many countries around the world that have seen palaeontologists scouring their strata for fossils, Mongolia is one of [&hellip

November 15th, 2019 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

Australia has many fossils from all ages, including several dinosaurs known exclusively from this time and place. However, they are [&hellip

October 21st, 2019 | by Guest Blogger

We don’t need a whole lot of fossil material to start to understand the ecosystems of the past. A few [&hellip

October 15th, 2019 | by David Marshall

The Ediacaran Period is host to the first large and complex multicellular organisms known in the fossil record. This ‘Ediacaran [&hellip

September 22nd, 2019 | by Guest Blogger

The recent discovery of a dinosaur trackway site on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, provides insight into “a day in [&hellip

September 15th, 2019 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

Terror birds, or phorusrhacids as they are known scientifically, are a group of large, flightless birds that lived during the [&hellip

August 14th, 2019 | by David Marshall

Between the weird and wonderful rangeomorphs of the Ediacaran Period and the world-famous palaeocommunities of the Burgess Shale, the ‘Early [&hellip

July 1st, 2019 | by David Marshall

Fossilisation of organic material was long thought to result in the complete loss of original content. However in the last [&hellip

May 28th, 2019 | by Guest Blogger

As with most children who are fascinated by dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus were amongst the first dinosaurs I learnt [&hellip

May 24th, 2019 | by Vishruth Venkat

One of palaeontology‘s great themes of questioning is the rise of novelty: how new structures and functions arise in specific [&hellip