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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.

Spirotubus are puzzling microfossils from southern Poland, dating from the Devonian period, around 380 million years ago.

The article presents an overview of marine environments that existed in the area of present-day Poland around 380–360 million years ago, during the Devonian period, when this region was covered by an extensive shallow and warm sea.

The authors performed a taxonomic revision (in other words, a restudy) of silicified plant remains from the Miocene of Tokaj Mountains (Hungary).

An erratic chert pebble discovered in an exposure of the Pleistocene till in Norfolk, UK, contains graptolites and microfossils preserved three-dimensionally in silica.