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Predatory snails drill holes in the shells of their prey. Using these boreholes, a research team led by palaeontologist Martin Zuschin from the...

Study reveals drivers of evolution in feeding structures of the earliest vertebrates: A study recently published in Nature Communication with...

What is the exact nature of the kinship between sharks, rays and skates and what is their evolutionary history? Up to now, the answers researchers had...

In his research, the palaeontologist Uwe Balthasar concentrates on the links between the evolution oif calcification in marine organisms and Earth...

Marine sediments help us to understand climate changes in the present as well as the past, but they are altered by humans in various ways: In a new...

According to a research team led by Mario Coiro and Leyla Seyfullah, the net-like leaf veining typical for today’s flowering plants developed much...

In a new study recently published in the journal Papers in Palaeontology, an international team of scientists led by palaeobiologist Julia Türtscher...

A new study with participation of palaeontologists at the University of Vienna shows the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that went extinct 3.6 million...

In the early morning of October 14, 2023, 13 biology students from both Bachelor’s and Master’s programs, together with Univ.-Prof. Martin Zuschin,...