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- “Fossilised faeces are like little treasure chests”
The first dinosaurs appeared more than 230 million years ago. Thirty million years later, they had evolved into the rulers of the planet. What was it that made them so successful? Palaeontologist …
- “Our fossil collections are still a source of new discoveries”
The Museum of Evolution in Uppsala has a very large collection of fossils. Some of them are featured in a new richly illustrated book entitled Sveriges geologi: en resa i tid och rum [Sweden’s …
- 355 million-year-old footprints rewrite the history of backboned land animals
Newly discovered fossilised footprints with long toes and claws have been found in a rock slab from Australia. The discovery pushes the origin of reptiles back by 35 million years and overthrows the …
- Piscivorous herring – a unique fish in the Baltic Sea ecosystem
In the coastal areas of the Baltic Sea, unusually large herring are sometimes caught, which has long raised questions. Are these large herring a separate population, or are they individuals that have …
- Fossil dung reveals clues to dinosaur success story
In an international collaboration, researchers at Uppsala University have been able to identify undigested food remains, plants and prey in the fossilised faeces of dinosaurs. These analyses of …
- Chinese-Swedish partnerships study fossils in Uppsala
This autumn, the Museum of Evolution in Uppsala has received a visit from several Chinese researchers. While there, they have been exploring the unique collection of fossils that came to Uppsala from …
- Polar sea reptile fossil oldest found in Southern Hemisphere
An international team of scientists has identified the oldest fossil of a sea-going reptile from the Southern Hemisphere – a nothosaur vertebra found on New Zealand’s South Island. 246 million years …
- Stone Age strategy for avoiding inbreeding
Blood relations and kinship were not all-important for the way hunter-gatherer communities lived during the Stone Age in Western Europe. A new genetic study, conducted at several well-known French …
- ERC grants for research on fungi and skeletons
Aaron Vogan, researcher at the Department of Organismal Biology, and Sophie Sanchez, Associate Professor at the same department, have both been awarded ERC Consolidator Grants. The grants are for …
- Zebrafish research comes together at Uppsala Biomedical Centre
A state-of-the-art zebrafish facility was recently inaugurated at Uppsala University’s Uppsala Biomedical Centre. It houses around 80,000 zebrafish that are cared for using fully automated methods – …
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