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Oxygen isotope changes in foram tests

Fossilized marine calcifiers provide key data for reconstructing ancient seawater temperatures, but diagenesis can bias their isotope and trace-element records.

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Wilhelm Friedberg’s collections at Lviv

Wilhelm Friedberg (1873–1941) was a Polish naturalist focussing on Miocene geology and palaeontology of today’s Poland and Western Ukraine.

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Ecosystem recovery after the Taghanic extinction

Kyrtatrypa pauli, a new Givetian brachiopod species from Świętomarz and Laskowa in the Holy Cross Mountains, is described.

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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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