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Cretaceous

Episode 65: Saurian

June 3rd, 2016 | by David Marshall

“Saurian is a video game focused on providing the most captivating prehistoric experience ever developed for commercial gaming: living like [&hellip

Mesozoic

Episode 64: When life nearly died

May 29th, 2016 | by David Marshall

Around 250 million years ago, the largest biotic crisis the world has ever known occurred. The Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME) [&hellip

Live

Progressive Palaeontology 2016

May 18th, 2016 | by David Marshall

Progressive Palaeontology (ProgPal) is an annual conference for postgraduate research students who wish to present their results at any stage [&hellip

Carboniferous

Episode 63: Return of the Tully Monster

April 13th, 2016 | by David Marshall

Science is a process and so the door to the revision and refinement of hypotheses must always be left open. [&hellip

Carboniferous

Episode 62: The Tully Monster

March 18th, 2016 | by David Marshall

Tullimonstrum gregarium, better known as the ‘Tully Monster’ is a problematic fossil from the Late Carboniferous Mazon Creek lagerstätte, Illinois, USA. [&hellip

Paleozoic

Episode 59: Chemnitz petrified forest

February 22nd, 2016 | by David Marshall

Beneath the city of Chemnitz, Germany, exists a entire fossilised forest. This whole ecosystem was preserved in life-position during a [&hellip

Live

59th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association

December 13th, 2015 | by David Marshall

Monday 14th December Thematic Symposium: “Palaeobiotic interactions” Competition and symbiosis on marine hard substrates in the fossil record Paul D. [&hellip

Cretaceous

A new fireworm from the Cretaceous of Lebanon

November 17th, 2015 | by David Marshall

A new fossil from Lebanon is named today in BMC Evolutionary Biology as Rollinschaeta myoplena. We spoke to lead author Luke Parry about this [&hellip