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Biogenic minerals (biominerals) differ in structure and biogeochemical composition from their abiotic counterparts.

The first monographic study of several dozen crinoid taxa (including one new species) from the Jurassic and Cretaceous sediments of Africa and Asia (southern Tethys).

Recent stalked crinoids exclusively live at considerable depths, but in the geological past they were common in shallow-marine environments.

An international team analysed functional morphology of the neck and paleoecology of the Late Cretaceous eutherian mammal Zalambdalestes lechei from Mongolia.

Mixosaurs were a group of ichthyosaurs from the Middle Triassic.

The paper documents another stage in elucidating the phylogenetic relationships among traditionally understood Caryophylliidae…

184 years ago, a small bone was discovered in the Triassic of Scotland…

At the site of Węże 2 near Działoszyn in Łódź Voivodeship numerous remains of mammals and other vertebrates dating from the Pliocene (over 2.5 million years ago) were found.

Triassic Tanystropheus was characterised by the most elongate vertebrae among the known animals

Turtles are characterized by an unusual anatomy of the locomotor apparatus linked with the development of their shell