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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...

Congratulations to Dr. Salim Belkhedim for defending his PhD thesis entitled at University of Oran 2, completed in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Axel Munnecke and Dr. Emilia Jarochowska.

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.

Scientists have assumed that species display a life cycle which is similar to the the life of humans, being divided into puberty, maturity, and old age. Paleobiology student Niklas Hohmann and Dr. Emilia Jarochowska showed in their recent publication that these life cycles are mathematical relics an...

Climate change is perceived very differently in our society. The natural sciences often set completely different priorities here than, for example, politics or economics. And how does tomorrow's generation see this development? At the Long Night of Sciences, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kießling, Dr. Florian ...

Climate change is progressing faster than we would have dreamed a few years ago. The consequences for people and the environment are already clearly noticeable, but we are only at the beginning of accelerating global warming. Climate sceptics often stress that climate change has always existed, but ...

At The European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2019 in Vienna Theresa presented a synsedimentary-grown Halysites (chain coral) colony from the Silurian of Gotland crosscutting several beds of the circumambient limestone-marl alternation. The limestone-marl alternation was identified to be of early diagenet...

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...