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28.10.2025 14:00

Manouria morla, a Miocene tortoise

The paper presents a new Miocene species of a tortoise from Czechia – Manouria morla. Its specific name refers to Morla the Aged One, a turtle from “The Neverending Story” by Michael Ende.

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21.10.2025 13:42

Deep-sea corals: The future architects of reefs

Though coral reefs cover only a small part of Earth’s surface, they support over a quarter of marine species and nearly a billion people.

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16.10.2025 10:01

Food strengthens coral skeletons and survival in an acid ocean

Deep ocean waters are seen as refugia that can protect cold-water, non-symbiotic corals from warming and acidification.

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13.10.2025 14:14

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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10.10.2025 13:46

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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29.09.2025 15:14

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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