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Due to the current situation there are a few changes in the daily procedure of the university. Updates, informaion and questions related to the studies can be found here.

How huge he really was is uncertain. The only thing that is certain is that it is the largest bony fish of all time: we are talking about the Leedsichthys problematicus, which lived about 160 million years ago. But how can such fossils, of which only a few fragments have survived, even be analysed? ...

Palaeontology, the ‘study of ancient life’, has been making a significant contribution to our understanding of the natural world for over 200 years. One of the greatest achievements of palaeontological research has been to confirm the extinction of species as fact and to confirm Darwin’s Theory of ...

We invite contributions to the session Earth System Paleobiology: closing the geological and biological gap at European Geoscience Union General Assembly 2020 on 3-8 May in Vienna. The session is organized by Kenneth De Baets, Emilia Jarochowska, Martin Schobben and Melanie Tietje.

Prof. Ondřej Bábek of Olomouc University will give a guest talk on Uses (and misuses) of quantitative proxies in sequence-stratigraphy and palaoeclimatology: field gamma-ray spectrometry and element geochemistry logs on Wednesday 27. November at 8:30 AM in the Palaeobiology seminar in Henkestraße 91...

Students of the Masters major Earth Systems Research Lab have created short videos about their research projects. The videos can be now seen online on GZN's YouTube channel.

In this year´s 250th birthday celebration the Alexander von Humboldt foundation financed two acclaimed researchers to work for six months at the Chair of Applied Geology / GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Profs. Walter Daesslé-Heuser from Mexico and Rohana C...

On October 21, 5pm, PD Dr. Kenneth de Baets (GZN) will give a talk "Gasping fish and panting belemnites: Warming, growth and migration of water-breathing animals " in Hörsaal Geologie, GeoZentrums Nordbayern, Schlossgarten 5. The Pliensbachian-Toarcian transition has been considered a major bott...

The Open Access journal PeerJ has granted the Award for Open Data Analysis and Publication in Palaeontology to our Masters student in Palaeobiology, Fiona Pye, for her talk "ImageJ and 3D Slicer: Open Source 2/3D Morphometric Software" co-authored by Nussaïbah Raja Shoob, Bryan Shirley, ÁdámT. Kocsis, Niklas Hohmann, Duncan Murdock & Emilia Jarochowska.

Wyatt Petryshen, Masters student from the University of Calgary, is visiting the Palaeobiology research group to conduct a project on 3D conodont morphometrics with Dr. Emilia Jarochowska and Dr. Kenneth De Baets.