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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Brachiopods of the Variscan orogen

The over-thousand-page monograph on the largest mountain range in Palaeozoic Europe—the Variscan orogen—also includes a chapter on brachiopods. These are among the most common Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous fossils in this area (at least 1,500 species), providing numerous elements for palaeoecological and palaeobiogeographic reconstructions.

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Ancient corals reveal the secrets of the port of Acre

Exceptionally well-preserved sub-fossil colonies of Cladocora sp. corals from the Hellenistic port of Acre (ca. 335–94 BCE) have made it possible to combine archaeological and modern data, providing a better understanding of climate variability and human influence on ancient coastal processes more than 2000 years ago.

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Seeing even what we would rather overlook

Imagine a microscope so powerful it can “see” molecules a billion times more precisely than traditional tools. That’s what Photo-induced Force Microscopy (PiFM) does, offering new insights into Earth and environmental sciences.

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Isotopes in mammoth teeth evidence migrations

New, very sensitive methods allowed analysing seasonal changes of strontium isotopes in woolly mammoth teeth, thus enabling analysis with under 10-day resolution over more than 10 years of tooth growth.

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Stalk microstructure of pseudoplanktonic crinoids

Throughout their long evolutionary history, crinoids developed pseudoplanktonic lifestyles and attached themselves with long stalks to driftwood. This article describes the microstructure and internal morphology of the stalks of such crinoids from the genus Seirocrinus.

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Dinosaur skulls allow deciphering changes in diet

Protoceratopsids were small horned dinosaurs common in the Late Cretaceous rocks of the Gobi Desert. New analyses of morphometric data enable to estimate the ontogenetic changes occurring in the skull of these animals.

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