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Shells of small (micromorphic) brachiopods are not so attractive as other fossils preserved in the white chalk facies…

In the Jurassic period, besides the well-known plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, there existed a third group of widely distributed large predatory marine reptiles…

Reconstruction of the Ocean surface water temperature based on calibration of many geochemical indicators from skeletons.

Vertebrate bones are rare in the Lower Triassic deposits of the Holy Cross Mountains.

… The specimen represents an exceptionally large individual, larger than the known representatives of Proterochersis robusta from the same formation…

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.