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L’équipe du service éducation du Ditsong: Museums of South Africa visite les sites paléontologiques de Bolt's Farm
Actualité

From The Bolt’s Farms Exhibition, Ditsong: Museum Of South Africa’s Education Officers Traced The Big Cats’ Footprints To The Site

On the 15th of February 2023, Dr Vilakazi a senior researcher at University of Johannesburg and Mr Lazarus Kgasi a junior curator at DNMNH welcomed the...

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Offre d'emploi / stage

Funded PhD project | Environmental changes at the Eocene-Oligocene transition: evidence from the Quercy’s (southwestern France) fossil plant record

The main objective of the thesis project is to provide an overview of the floristic diversity at the family or generic level (if possible) of the Quercy...

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Dessin d’interprétation d’Iniopera lors de sa prise alimentaire
Nouvelle publication

Ancient chimaeras were suction feeders, not shell crushers, new research shows

Research led by the CR2P and MECADEV (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, MNHN) and the University of Birmingham has shown that an ancient relative of...

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Vidéo

Geology in Essonne - Villemartin's sandpit

A series of videos on the Villemartin fossiliferous deposit in Essonne (France) presented by Didier Merle of the CR2P and Jean-Paul Baut of the association...

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La presse en parle

Cold blooded, hot blooded: the controversy continues

Several CR2P members have contributed to this features.

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Nouvelle publication

Changes in the tree canopy facilitated the evolution of the earliest gliding reptile

A team of researchers from CR2P and the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe has reconstructed the skeleton of Coelurosauravus...

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Vie du labo

The IRL Homen team meets in Paris

In September 2022, CR2P welcomes two South African colleagues, Nonhlanhla Vilakazi and Lazarus Kgasi, as part of the IRL HOMEN exchange.

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La presse en parle

Discovery of a new species of mosasaur, Thalassotitan atrox, a giant predator from the Upper Cretaceous

An international team of researchers from CR2P, the Universities of Bath and Bilbao, and the Office Chérifien des Phosphates (Morocco) has just discovered a...

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Nouvelle publication

Fossil Decapod Crustacea in the historical collections

This book by Sylvain Charbonnier and Alessandro Garassino is dedicated to the fossil crustaceans preserved in the oldest paleontological collections of the...

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La presse en parle

Vampyronassa rhodanica, the oldest known ancestor of the modern-day vampire squid, was likely an active hunter - a mode of life that is in contrast with its opportunistic descendant.

Alison Rowe and several CR2P members participated in this study published in Scientific Reports

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Événement

998 Cretaceous fossils seized by the French customs services are handed over to the Brazilian authorities

Sylvain Charbonnier, responsible for the scientific expertise of this investigation, and Mariana Valeria de Araújo Sena attended the ceremony of handing...

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Nouvelle publication

Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the World. Part Muricopsinae

The goal of Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the World is to provide a new synthesis of the Muricidae, one of the most collected shell families...

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La presse en parle

Dragons, mammoths and giant wolves: what do the animals in “Game of Thrones” tell us?

CNRS Le Journal (the online news site of the French National Center for Scientific Research) publishes a paleontological analysis by Jean-Sébastien...

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La presse en parle

Balkanatolie : the forgotten continent that sheds light on the evolution of mammals

A team of French, American and Turkish palaeontologists and geologists led by CR2P an CEREGE researchers has discovered the existence of...

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Nouvelle publication

Locusts and grasshoppers were ubiquitous 300 million years ago

Ovipositor and mandible structure of a new fossil insect species reveals a novel role for orthopterans in Carboniferous forests

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Evolution en voie d'illumination - Parasaurolophus
Événement

Illuminated Evolution

Cover 600 million years in a single evening with this new immersive night walk devoted to the evolution of life.

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Plésiosaure
La presse en parle

"Sea monsters" at the time of the dinosaurs

An interview with Nathalie Bardet, Peggy Vincent and Alexandra Houssaye for CNRS Le Journal on the occasion of the publication of the book La...

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Nouvelle publication

A twig-like insect stuck in the Permian mud indicates early origin of an ecological strategy in Hexapoda evolution

A team of researchers from CR2P and ISYEB has just described a 265 million year old fossil record of a stick insect. These insects, most often mimetic by...

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Nouvelle publication

Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology

New book on bone histology, co-edited by six histologists including five members of CR2P.

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Prix

Brigitte Senut receives the "Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca"

Wenesday June the fitth, Brigitte Senut receives the "Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca" for her project "...

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