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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Aragonite in fossil corals doesn’t guarantee original preservation

Aragonite under scrutiny: Is the foundation of paleoclimatology starting to crumble?
Aragonitic skeletons of modern and fossil corals are widely regarded as diagenetically unaltered and as preserving the original isotopic signals of the environment in which they formed.

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Living brachiopods from NW Australia

Living brachiopods are common in southern Australian waters but remain poorly known off NW Australia.

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Sedimentary ancient DNA of Antarctic foraminifera

Foraminifera are a large group of unicellular microorganisms inhabiting waters and sediments of the world ocean.

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Miocene crocodylian from Central Poland

The current geographic distribution of crocodiles is basically limited to the tropical zone, up to the 37th degree of latitude, but was it always like that?

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Deep-sea predation on crinoids by fish

Deep-sea research conducted using a submersible has, for the first time, provided direct evidence of antagonistic interactions between fish (Ophidiiformes) and stalked crinoids.

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Linnaean nomenclature – international consensus

Any scientific communication requires an unequivocal identification of described objects. The Latin Linnaean nomenclature is such a consensus system in biology.

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