Month: January 2019

Not only geologists are in love with rocks, climbers are too. Our Paleobiology student Niklas Hohmann discusses the geology of Franconian Switzerland, our local climbing area close to Erlangen and birthplace of modern sports climbing.

Palaeobiology Master student Madleen Grohganz presents the results of her Bachelors thesis in the video lecture „Geochemical composition of conodonts as the record of their growth dynamics“.

Palaeobiology student Niklas Hohmann connects mathematics and paleontology in unexpected ways. In his contribution for the 1st palaeontologcial virtual congress, he describes how a blurring effect used by Instagram and Photoshop can be used to describe how extinction events are preserved in the fossil record.

The Geosciences Colloquium “When, where and why life began to walk - A reconnaissance of the Cambrian Explosion and the origin of the Bilateria" took place on Monday, 7th January 2019. ABSTRACT: The Cambrian Radiation Event, or Cambrian Explosion, records the advent of metazoan life and set the ...