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Kyrtatrypa pauli, a new Givetian brachiopod species from Świętomarz and Laskowa in the Holy Cross Mountains, is described.

As late as in the mid-1960s, whales were still being intensively harvested and processed in South Georgia.

Hundreds of fossils with direct evidence of foraging were used to compare the trophic dynamics of five vertebrate communities…

Where the Dolomites stand today, about 235 million years ago there was a warm sea with many coral reefs.

Bones with large hollow spaces are one of the characteristic features of dinosaurs (including birds) and pterosaurs.Bones with large hollow spaces are one of the characteristic features of dinosaurs (including birds) and pterosaurs.

A sauropod femur found in 1963 in the Baynshire Formation (Cenomanian–Santonian) in Mongolia had been identified as belonging to a subadult representative of Titanosauriformes.

The study uncovers the world’s most diverse collection of fossilized ascidian spicules, found in Bogutovo Selo near Ugljevik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and dating back to the Middle Miocene.

A new specimen of the early ichthyosaur Chaohusaurus zhangjiawanensis from the Early Triassic of Hubei Province, China, confirms heterodonty in this species.

A comprehensive study by an international team of researchers found that the evolutionary trajectories of Triassic–Jurassic ichthyosaurs and eosauropterygians…

Besanosaurus leptorhynchus is a large-bodied ichthyosaur from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Alps near the Italy–Switzerland border).