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For his excellent teaching in 2019, Prof. Dr. Axel Munnecke receives the “Prize for Good Teaching”! Science Minister Bernd Sibler announces the winners and congratulates them: “Your work is crucial for the success of the studies of students and thus for the training of smart minds who shape our...

Nature Research highlights GeoCentre research in Uganda: Scott Jess and team in collaboration with StrucTec at the GeoCentre in Earth and Planetary Science Letters show, that the western branch of the  East African Rift System is probably as old as the eastern branch.  This means the whole East Afri...

Prof. Wolfgang Kießling, Chair of Palaeobiology, and scientists from Australia have succeeded in providing a robust basis for the identification of "New Ecosystems" bereitzustellen, with fossils playing a special role: "Increased extinction in the emergence of novel ecological communities". At the ...

Rachel Warnock has accepted the offer for a W2 professorship in Systems Paleobiology. She will be joining our Team from 1st of October 2020.

Part of the GZN staff fighting against corona. Similarities with real existing people are of course purely coincidental (fantastic drawing from our MSc student Anna Merkel).

Join us on Monday 4. May for a live chat session with authors and conveners.

Das diesjährige Sommersemester wird größtenteils online stattfinden, mit Ausnahme einiger weniger Seminare und Exkursionen, die verschoben werden. Alle Informationen finden Sie auf StudOn oder UnivIS. Die Dozenten sind dabei, ihre Vorlesungen nach Möglichkeit in verschiedene Online-Formate umzuw...

Aufgrund der aktuellen Situation gibt es einige Änderungen im Tagesablauf der Universität.Aktuelle Informationen und Fragen zum Studium finden Sie hier. Due to the current situation there are a few changes in the daily procedure of the university. Updates, information and questions related t...

How huge he really was is uncertain. The only thing that is certain is that it is the largest bony fish of all time: we are talking about the Leedsichthys problematicus, which lived about 160 million years ago. But how can such fossils, of which only a few fragments have survived, even be analysed?...