Author: Agnieszka K.

Rudists, extinct bivalves with massive shells, built vast reefs in the tropical Cretaceous seas.

In the prestigious series Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, a chapter was released that synthesizes data on the functional morphology and paleoecology of crinoids with unusual morphologies.

A taxonomic revision of the extinct genus Zittelia from Jurassic sediments made it possible to trace a gradual evolutionary change in shell morphology…

A POLONEZ BIS project, led by Dr. Milan Chroust in collaboration with Dr. Tomasz Szczygielski from the Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences…

The paper presents a new Miocene species of a tortoise from Czechia – Manouria morla. Its specific name refers to Morla the Aged One, a turtle from “The Neverending Story” by Michael Ende.

Deep ocean waters are seen as refugia that can protect cold-water, non-symbiotic corals from warming and acidification.

Though coral reefs cover only a small part of Earth’s surface, they support over a quarter of marine species and nearly a billion people.

The over-thousand-page monograph on the largest mountain range in Palaeozoic Europe—the Variscan orogen—also includes a chapter on brachiopods.

Exceptionally well-preserved sub-fossil colonies of Cladocora sp. corals from the Hellenistic port of Acre (ca. 335–94 BCE) have made it possible to combine archaeological and modern data…

Imagine a microscope so powerful it can “see” molecules a billion times more precisely than traditional tools.