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- Piscivorous herring – a unique fish in the Baltic Sea ecosystem2025-01-07
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 story2024-11-28
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 Uppsala2024-10-31
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 Hemisphere2024-06-18
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 inbreeding2024-02-28
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 skeletons2023-11-23
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 Centre2023-09-26
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 – …
- Alumnus of the Year discusses path to Nobel Prize2023-09-11
The foundations of an extraordinary research career were laid at Uppsala University, from Egyptology to medicine and molecular genetics. “In one sense, I learned everything here,” comments Nobel …
- Svante Pääbo named Alumnus of the Year 20232023-09-11
He opened up a completely new field of research by sequencing the genome of our long-extinct relatives. For his scientific accomplishment, Svante Pääbo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or …
- Scientists explain: how is ancient material dated2023-09-07
How can we find out how old an excavated object, a dinosaur skeleton or our planet is? And is it possible to get an answer as to when modern humans appeared? Archaeologists, geologists, …
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