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Trachelosaurus, described over 100 years ago, turned out to be not a chimera…

Franconiasaurus brevispinus is a new early plesiosaur established based on two three-dimensionally preserved skeletons from the Lower Jurassic of Germany.

Bagaraatan ostromi is an enigmatic carnivorous dinosaur described from the Upper Cretaceous Nemegt Formation in Mongolia.

Many organisms exhibit astonishing biomineralization abilities, forming polymorphic minerals from the same chemical substance.

One of the basic taphonomic questions is whether the borings in skeletal structures were produced in vivo or post mortem.

Diadectomorpha was a group of large-bodied herbivorous tetrapods that existed from the late Carboniferous to the late Permian.

A new, rich vertebrate assemblage was discovered in the Middle Triassic strata of Miedary in southern Poland.

The mode of locomotion of one of the earliest free-living stalked echinoderms – Ordovician Pleurocystites belonging to the subphylum Blastozoa – was reconstructed.

During the Miocene salinity crisis, changing environmental conditions, including a sharp reduction in water exchange between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, changed the geographic ranges of many organisms.

Turtles have a characteristic limb bone microstructure: the poorly vascularized tissue grows slowly throughout most of their life; in addition, there is no medullary cavity.