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Episode 102: Small Shelly Fossils

August 14th, 2019 | by David Marshall

Between the weird and wonderful rangeomorphs of the Ediacaran Period and the world-famous palaeocommunities of the Burgess Shale, the ‘Early [&hellip

July 1st, 2019 | by David Marshall

Fossilisation of organic material was long thought to result in the complete loss of original content. However in the last [&hellip

May 28th, 2019 | by Guest Blogger

As with most children who are fascinated by dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus were amongst the first dinosaurs I learnt [&hellip

May 24th, 2019 | by Vishruth Venkat

One of palaeontology‘s great themes of questioning is the rise of novelty: how new structures and functions arise in specific [&hellip

April 15th, 2019 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

Undoubtedly, Megalodon is the world’s most famous extinct shark is and in this episode, we hear everything we know about [&hellip

March 15th, 2019 | by David Marshall

From 1:1 scale whales to microfossils scaled up to the size of a house, there are few model-building projects that [&hellip

March 1st, 2019 | by David Marshall

We explore opsins and the evolution of colour vision in ecdysozoans

January 1st, 2019 | by David Marshall

Decapods are a group of crustaceans that include such well-known families as crabs, lobsters and shrimp. Whilst crustaceans are known [&hellip

December 14th, 2018 | by David Marshall

This year, the Palaeontological Association’s AGM was held at the University of Bristol. Below, you’ll find all of the recording [&hellip

November 9th, 2018 | by David Marshall

We are very happy to be able to present the 66th Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, held at [&hellip