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• Skull evolution – the key to success for Darwin’s finches
• 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
• Professor Erin Saupe
• Professor Roger Benson
• Dr Duncan Murdock
• Professor Paul Smith
• Dr Tom Kemp
• Professor Jim Kennedy
• Professor Derek Siveter
• Associate Professor Luke Parry
• Dr Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente
• Mhairi Reid
• Matthew Sutton
• Sandy Hetherington appointed PalAss Exceptional Lecturer
• Sandy Hetherington awarded UKRI Future Leader Fellowship
• Ocean biodiversity has not increased substantially for hundreds of millions of years
• Ross Anderson wins Yale Simpson Prize
• Oldest relative of ragworms and earthworms discovered
• Fossil hunting? Clay holds the key
• Oxford to host virtual PalAss 2020
• Eigg beach runner stumbles on dinosaur bone
• High-tech insect origami
• 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
• 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
• Researchers find climate change impacts plankton
• Callum Bucklow
• 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
• Spencer Pevsner
• Stephanie Lechki
• Jack McMinn
• 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
• 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
• Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in Experimental Geobiology Opportunity
• New Oxford study sheds light on the origin of animals
• Erin Saupe promoted to Professor of Palaeobiology
• George Wedlake
• Adam Lindholm
• Dr Benjamin Shipley
• Katherine Faulkner
• Hanhui Huang
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• Thomas Pavey
• Katherine Faulkner wins AWG Undergraduate Excellence in Paleontology Award
• Recreation of ancient seawater reveals which nutrients shaped the evolution of early life
• Free spatial methods workshop for analysing the fossil record at Oxford
• Workshop: Spatial Methods for Analysing the Fossil Record
• The Oxford dinosaur that started it all
• Odysseus Archontikis
• Oxford Palaeobiology: Use of cookies on this website
• New study reveals insight into which animals are most vulnerable to extinction due to climate change
• Oxford researchers uncover remarkable archive of ancient human brains
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• Dr Piyush Sriwastava
• Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships - Expressions of interest open
• Professor Erin Saupe presented with Paleontological Society's Schuchert Award
• Half a billion-year-old spiny slug reveals the origins of molluscs
• PalaeoClub MT24 Week 4: Atal Pande (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
• PalaeoClub MT24 Week 5: James Crampton (Victoria University of Wellington)
• PalaeoClub MT24 Week 6: Imran Rahman (Natural History Museum - London)
• PalaeoClub MT24 Week 7: Greatest Fossil of All Time
• PalaeoClub MT24 Week 8: Sara Varela González (Universidade de Vigo)
• PalaeoClub HT25 The Past and Future of Life on Our Dynamic Planet Week 1: Alex Dunhill (University of Leeds)
• PalaeoClub HT25 The Past and Future of Life on Our Dynamic Planet Week 2: Anjali Goswami FRS (Natural History Museum - London)
• PalaeoClub HT25 The Past and Future of Life on Our Dynamic Planet Week 3: Lee Hsiang Liow (University of Oslo)
• PalaeoClub HT25 The Past and Future of Life on Our Dynamic Planet Week 4: Jennifer McElwain MRIA (Trinity College Dublin)
• PalaeoClub HT25 The Past and Future of Life on Our Dynamic Planet Week 5: Gene Hunt (Smithsonian Institution)
• PalaeoClub HT25 The Past and Future of Life on Our Dynamic Planet Week 6: Marc Laflamme (University of Toronto)
• PalaeoClub HT25 The Past and Future of Life on Our Dynamic Planet Week 7: Ilya Bobrovskiy (GFZ Potsdam)
• PalaeoClub HT25 The Past and Future of Life on Our Dynamic Planet Week 8: Emily Rayfield (University of Bristol)
• 2025 DTP/DPhil Project: Disentangling extinction risk in deep time
• Charlie Bates
• Minxuan Zhu
• Zoe Guy
• Holly Weale
• Agnes Prager
• Max Wylder
• Aria Ezaz-Nikpay
• Sawyer Suzuki
• Special PalaeoClub: GSA Practice Talks
• 2025 DTP/DPhil Project: Do clay-rich environments bias the early fossil record?
• 2025 DTP/Dhil Project: Unravelling the deep homology of gill slits and the origin of bilaterian body plans
• 2025 DTP/DPhil Project: The stars are out: a palaeontological perspective on the early evolution of the Asterozoa
• 2025 DTP/DPhil Project: Milankovitch, tides and marine mixing: drivers of plankton speciation and productivity
• 2025 DTP/DPhil Project: Palaeoecology and palaeophysiology of early flowering plants from the mid Cretaceous of West Greenland
• Oxford's Fossil Collections
• 2025 DTP/DPhil Project: The impact of ocean warming on nutrient and carbon acquisition of marine plankton
• 2025 DTP/DPhil Project: Integrating living species and the fossil record to unravel cnidarian evolution
• 2025 DTP/DPhil Project: The meiofauna frontier: pushing the limits of computed tomography in invertebrate morphology
• Golden bugs: Spectacular new fossil arthropods preserved in fool's gold
• 2025 DTP/DPhil Project: Protein specific mineralisation and exceptional fossils