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• PalaeoClub Anthony Shillito
• PalaeoClub Travis Park
• Earth Sciences Seminar Rachel Wood
• History of Research
• First Animals Exhibition
• Skull evolution – the key to success for Darwin’s finches
• Don't Walk on the rocks: Jack Matthews
• Endless worms most beautiful: Luke Parry
• Species that survive mass extinction events do not take over the space of fallen competitors
• Earth Sciences DPhil Graduate Awarded Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize in Vertebrate Palaeontology
• Burmese Treasure: An ammonite in amber
• Earth Sciences postgraduate awarded Best Student Presentation at the NAPC 2019
• Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics
• Oxygen linked with the boom and bust of early animal evolution
• Ledumahadi mafube – New Jurassic Giant of South Africa
• Two new Chinese dinosaurs discovered
• Greater species diversity at the equator linked to variations in precipitation
• New species of rare ancient ‘worm’ discovered in fossil hotspot
• Fish bone structure reveals surprising parallel evolution of warming mechanism
• Soft tissue fossil clues could help search for ancient life on Earth and other planets
• Dr Sam Giles awarded Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
• Professor Roger Benson
• New mathematical analysis confirms ‘Dickinsonia’ was an animal
• “Dinosaur fish” sheds new light on the fish family tree
• First evidence of Scottish mammals producing milk
• Sam Giles wins L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science fellowship
• 4th year undergraduate project reveals hint of origin of life on Earth
• Slower evolution and climate change drove ichthyosaurs to extinction
• Isle of Skye fossil makes three species one
• DPhil fieldwork contributes to Nature paper
• Bursting into life
• Life's big bang?
• Who shot the Dodo?
• Bound by blood
• Rehoming a dinosaur
• Secrets of an ancient reptile
• Tales from the Jurassic Coast
• Dinosaur WLTM friendly new carers
• Traces from space
• The ancient 'Kite Runner'
• Plesiosaur puzzle
• Prehistoric parasites
• Ancient arthropods
• The finest fossils
• Half-a-billion-year-old fossil offers new clues to how life exploded on sea floor
• Fossil plankton may be the key to understanding prehistoric climate change
• Getting to the root of plant evolution
• Two-faced fish clue that our ancestors 'weren't shark-like'
• Fossilised dinosaur brain tissue identified for the first time
• Scientists discover oldest plant root stem cells
• Professor Paul Smith wins royal award for work in the Arctic
• Jurassic saw fastest mammal evolution
• New study provides strongest evidence that oxygen levels were key to evolution of early animals
• Tentacled ‘Cthulhu’ fossil reconstruction reveals monstrous relative of modern sea cucumbers
• Thread-like associations connected ancient animals more than half-a-billion years ago
• Dr Ross Anderson
• Dr Roger Close
• Dr Frankie Dunn
• Associate Professor Erin Saupe
• Professor Roger Benson
• Dr Duncan Murdock
• Dr Elsa Panciroli
• Professor Paul Smith
• Dr Tom Kemp
• Professor Jim Kennedy
• Professor Derek Siveter
• Duhita Naware
• Brigit Tronrud
• Dr Luke Parry
• Dr Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente
• Mhairi Reid
• Matthew Sutton
• Sandy Hetherington appointed PalAss Exceptional Lecturer
• Oxford Geoheritage Virtual Conference
• PalaeoClub Online: Gwen Antell
• PalaeoClub Online: Isabel Fenton
• PalaeoClub Online: Imran Rahman
• PalaeoClub Online: Roger Close
• PalaeoClub Online: Ross Anderson
• PalaeoClub Online: Sandy Hetherington
• PalaeoClub Online: 1
• PalaeoClub Online: Guillermo Navalón
• Sandy Hetherington awarded UKRI Future Leader Fellowship
• Ocean biodiversity has not increased substantially for hundreds of millions of years
• PalaeoClub Online: Luke Parry
• Ross Anderson wins Yale Simpson Prize
• Virtual Palaeontology: Imran Rahman
• The Chronicles of Charnia: Frankie Dunn
• The why, what, when, and how of the first animal skeletons: Duncan Murdock
• Oldest relative of ragworms and earthworms discovered
• Fossil hunting? Clay holds the key
• PalaeoClub Online: Gwen Antell and Em Dale
• The Cambrian Explosion and the evolutionary origin of animals: Paul Smith
• Rotten Fish and Fossils - How experimental decay is transforming our understanding of ancient life: Sarah Gabbott
• First Animals - how did they move?: Shuhai Xiao
• Extraordinary soft-bodied fossils highlight the Cambrian Explosion: Derek Briggs
• Gabriela Mangano
• Rachel Wood
• Oxford to host virtual PalAss 2020
• Eigg beach runner stumbles on dinosaur bone
• High-tech insect origami
• PalaeoClub Online: Week 1
• PalaeoClub Online Week 2: Duncan Murdock and Jack Matthews
• PalaeoClub Online Week 6: Gwen Antell
• PalaeoClub Online Week 7: Nicolás Mongiardino Koch (Yale)
• PalaeoClub Online Week 8: Farid Saleh (Yunnan)
• Fossil Insect Wonders: Ricardo Pérez-de la-Fuente
• PalAss Annual Meeting 2020
• Ben Igielman
• Gwen Antell wins best student presentation
• Clay-organic bonds key to Burgess Shale fossilisation
• Associate Professor Erin Saupe wins the Palaeontological Association's Hodson Award
• PalaeoClub Online Week 1: Eli Amson (Berlin)
• PalaeoClub Online Week 2: Thomas Püschel (Oxford Anthropology)
• PalaeoClub Online Week 3: Brigit Tronrud
• PalaeoClub Online Week 4
• PalaeoClub Online Week 5: Roger Benson
• PalaeoClub Online Week 6: Frankie Dunn
• PalaeoClub Online Week 7: Flávio Pretto (CAPPA Dinosaur Centre, Brazil)
• PalaeoClub Online Week 8: Luke Parry
• Associate Professor Julie Cosmidis
• Experiments show the record of early life could be full of “false positives”
• Luke Parry wins Geological Society of London Lyell Fund
• PalaeoClub Online Trinity Week 1
• PalaeoClub Online Trinity Week 2
• PalaeoClub Online Trinity Week 3
• PalaeoClub Online Trinity Week 4
• PalaeoClub Online Trinity Week 5
• PalaeoClub Online Trinity Week 6: Matt Sutton
• PalaeoClub Online Trinity Week 7: Luke Parry
• PalaeoClub Online Trinity Week 8: Frankie Dunn
• Earth Sciences Seminar: Emmy Smith (Johns Hopkins University)
• Researchers find climate change impacts plankton
• Ediacaran Taxonomy 2021
• Dr Han Hu
• Callum Bucklow
• Michal Jezierski
• PalaeoClub Michaelmas '21 Week 2: Social
• PalaeoClub Michaelmas '21 Week 3: Ricardo Perez-De-La Fuente
• PalaeoClub Michaelmas '21 Week 4: Brooke Johnson
• PalaeoClub Michaelmas '21 Week 5: Tina Woltz (UCSB)
• PalaeoClub Michaelmas '21 Week 6: Peer Community In
• PalaeoClub Michaelmas '21 Week 7: Hu Han
• PalaeoClub Michaelmas '21 Week 8: Luke Parry
• Erin Saupe wins Philip Leverhulme Prize
• Harri Ravenscroft
• Cooper Malanoski
• Life on Mars search could be misled by false fossils
• Iron integral to the development of life on Earth
• Erin Saupe honoured in Blavatnik Awards
• Alexandra Morton-Hayward
• New study finds giant predatory dinosaurs could hunt underwater
• DPhil student Alexandra Morton-Hayward awarded a Scholarship from the Anglo-Danish Society
• 560-million-year-old fossil is first animal predator
• Earliest evidence of fruit-eating by birds
• Dr Thomas Smith
• Armoured worm reveals the ancestry of three major animal groups
• Dr Nadia Santodomingo
• PalaeoClub MT22 Week 2: Frankie Dunn
• PalaeoClub MT22 Week 3: Callum Bucklow
• PalaeoClub MT22 Week 4: Kat Magoulick (UC Berkeley)
• PalaeoClub MT22 Week 6: Jack McMinn
• PalaeoClub MT22 Week 8: Luke Parry
• PalaeoClub MT22 Week 5: Ally Morton-Hayward
• Spencer Pevsner
• Stephanie Lechki
• Jack McMinn
• Maria Dance
• PalaeoClub MT22 Week 7: Tom Smith
• Associate Professor/Professor of Palaeobiology Opportunity
• Fossil bird’s skull reconstruction reveals a brain made for smelling and eyes made for daylight
• New Scottish fossil sheds light on the origin of lizards
• Collections Manager (Earth Collections) Opportunity
• 500 million year-old fossils reveal answer to evolutionary riddle
• Julie Cosmidis awarded ERC Starting Grant
• Ross Anderson awarded Royal Society University Research Fellowship
• Fossil CSI: Analysis of giant marine reptile graveyard suggests ancient birthing grounds
• PalaeoClub HT23 Week 1
• PalaeoClub HT23 Week 2: Ally Morton-Hayward
• PalaeoClub HT23 Week 3: Favourite Palaeo Papers
• PalaeoClub HT23 Week 4: Lot Koopmans
• PalaeoClub HT23 Week 5: Ben Igielman
• PalaeoClub HT23 Week 6: Max Telford
• PalaeoClub HT23 Week 7: Frankie Dunn
• PalaeoClub HT23 Week 8: PalaeoClub Quiz
• Portrait of a Palaeontologist
• Fossil study brings us one step closer to revealing how ‘flying dinosaurs’ took flight
• Large-scale fossil study reveals origins of modern biodiversity gradient
• Dr Emma Nicholls
• Dr Bouwe Reijenga
• Earth Sciences Seminar: Michael Henehan (University of Bristol)
• PalaeoClub TT23 Week 2: Pedro Monnarrez (Stanford University)
• PalaeoClub TT23 Week 3: Bouwe Reijenga
• PalaeoClub TT23 Week 4: Papers in Palaeobiology
• PalaeoClub TT23 Week 5: Kelly Tingle (Vanderbilt University)
• PalaeoClub TT23 Week 6: Oxford Palaeobiology Summer Party
• PalaeoClub TT23 Week 7: Daniele Silvestro (Université de Fribourg)
• PalaeoClub TT23 Week 8: Spencer Pevsner
• Connected Planet: Erin Saupe
• Connected Planet: Luke Parry (University College London)
• Earth Sciences Seminar: Nussaibah Raja Schoob (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
• Earth Sciences Seminar: Ben Mills (University of Leeds)
• PalaeoClub TT23 Week 1: Papers in Palaeontology
• Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in Experimental Geobiology Opportunity