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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New genus of Triassic turtles from Thailand

Already in the Late Triassic, turtles attained global distribution, yet only a single species, Proganochelys ruchae, had been described from the eastern part of Pangea (Thailand, in the 1980s).

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The Early Jurassic plesiosauroid Seeleyosaurus

Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris is an early plesiosauroid from the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany.

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Collagen: graptolites’ strength

The work is a synthetic compilation of data on the walls of graptolite colonies, Ordovician and Silurian index fossils.

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Geochemistry and nanomechanics of echinoids

Geochemical studies of Recent echinoids from a variety of environments have shown that incorporation of trace elements into their skeleton is partly dependent on environmental factors such as salinity.

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The largest dinosaurs walked slowly

How fast did the largest dinosaurs – the sauropods – walk? This may be calculated based on the length of their limb bones, using the laws of physics.

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First remains of Miocene reptiles from Moravia

The paper describes the first remains of a crocodile and a sea turtle from the Middle Miocene locality of Kienberg in the Moravian part of Czechia.

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