For over 70 years, the Roman Kozłowski Institute of Paleobiology has been conducting in-depth studies of the history of life on Earth. Every year, the Institute publishes dozens of peer-reviewed articles, organizes conferences, foreign expeditions and excavations in new paleontological sites. We educate PhD students, publish the best paleontological journal in Poland (Acta Palaeontologica Polonica) and popularize science.
The staff and laboratories are open to cooperation with other research centers and interdisciplinary projects. An essential part of our Institute is the Paleontological Collection, gathering the largest fossil collections in Poland (hundreds of thousands of specimens), partly exhibited in the Museum of Evolution.

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Marine vertebrates from the Permian–Triassic boundary

The Permian–Triassic mass extinction was the largest extinction event in Earth's history, completely reshaping marine and terrestrial ecosystems. However, Early Triassic marine vertebrate fossils are rare,

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Foetus of a Triassic ichthyosaur

Ichthyosaurs were a group of Mesozoic marine reptiles highly adapted to life in the ocean. One of their most important adaptations was live birth, which eliminated the need to return to land to reproduce.

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The first Late Jurassic orthopteran from Poland!

The elcanid ?Panorpidium polonicum is described based on the wing venation of a single tegmen from the Owadów-Brzezinki quarry. Elcanidae is an extinct family of insects in the order Orthoptera, occurring mainly during the Mesozoic.

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A review of ornithischian nomenclature

Ornithischians were a major dinosaur lineage that existed from the TriassicJurassic boundary interval to the end of the Cretaceous. Since Ornithischia was recognized as a natural group,

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A new Triassic turtle from France

The earliest turtles are known from the middle Late Triassic (Norian), but their record in the latest Triassic (Rhaetian) is very scarce. Bartassochersis lopezi from France is the first Rhaetian turtle from the northern hemisphere.

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How long do crinoids live?

For the first time, the lifespan of deep-sea stalked crinoids was determined using the bomb radiocarbon method, which relies on the 14C signal produced by atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the 1960s.

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