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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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