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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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