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The Covid infection numbers are rising rapidly in Germany, and our Minister of Health has forecast that the peak of the Omikron wave will probably be reached in mid-February - i.e. about 3 weeks before the courses should start. This means that although we can probably expect the number of infections... Continue

Nussaibah Raja-Schoob and Paulina Nätscher, together with colleagues from the UK, South Africa, Brazil and India, recently published a paper highlighting the effects of colonial history and socio-economic factors on sampling biases in the fossil record. The study shows that 97% of fossil data collec... Continue

The Annual Meeting of The Palaeontological Association 2021 ended again with the Palaeovision Fossil Contest. This is an online, interactive, international competition to decide the Annual Meeting’s favourite fossil for this year. The Paleontology Team (FAU) successfully completed a video about bele... Continue

We are excited to share the Diversity Dynamics and Crisis in Paleontology speaker series with you all! "Thank you" to the fantastic speakers and to the organisers of the speaker series Nussaibah Raja-Schoob (Erlangen) and Emma Dunne (Birmingham) as well as Jansen Smith (Erlangen). Here’s our YouTu... Continue

TERSANE proudly announces its first video release. This is part 1 of 3 videos. Stay tuned for the rest! Part 1 of the mini series on the work of the TERSANE research unit on Temperature related stresses as a unifying principle in ancient extinctions. This video introduces past episodes of catastr... Continue