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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Environmental impact of whaling

As late as in the mid-1960s, whales were still being intensively harvested and processed in South Georgia.

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Fossil faeces contain clues on dinosaur origins

Hundreds of fossils with direct evidence of foraging were used to compare the trophic dynamics of five vertebrate communities that record the process of dinosaurs gaining dominance on land.

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Triassic fish from the Dolomites

Where the Dolomites stand today, about 235 million years ago there was a warm sea with many coral reefs.

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Anatomy of the cervical vertebrae in tenysaurians

Bones with large hollow spaces are one of the characteristic features of dinosaurs (including birds) and pterosaurs.

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Microstructure study of sauropod bone from Mongolia

A sauropod femur found in 1963 in the Baynshire Formation (CenomanianSantonian) in Mongolia had been identified as belonging to a subadult representative of Titanosauriformes.

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Miocene ascidians from Bosnia and Herzegovina

The study uncovers the world’s most diverse collection of fossilized ascidian spicules, found in Bogutovo Selo near Ugljevik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and dating back to the Middle Miocene.

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