Micropaleontology
Micropaleontology: the branch of palaeontology that studies microfossils, or fossils that require the use of a microscope to see the organism, its morphology and its characteristics details. It is the largest discipline in paleontology, just as microfossils are by far the most abundant of all fossils. Although nearly invisible, micro-organisms at the base of the food chain make up nearly 90 per cent of the biomass in oceans and lakes. Changes in the abundance and types of microfossils from year to year, over millions of years of undisturbed accumulation, makes an exquisitely detailed record of climate change, plate tectonics, and biological evolution.
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JAN 03, 2022
Earth & The Environment
JAN 03, 2022
Dr. Richard Leakey, one of the fathers of Paleoanthropology has passed away in Kenya.
Written By:
Timothy James
NOV 30, 2021
Plants & Animals
NOV 30, 2021
Tardigrades might be the toughest little creatures around. These minuscule eight-legged vertebrates can survive in outer
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 28, 2021
Plants & Animals
JUL 28, 2021
Professor Elizabeth C. Turner of Laurentian University may have discovered the oldest animal fossil ever, as reported in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 18, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
MAY 18, 2021
Bacteria are everywhere, including our guts and mouths. Researchers are learnings more about the history of the human mi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 13, 2021
Microbiology
MAY 13, 2021
What can we learn from a specimen of ancient poo? A lot, it turns out. Scientists have now reported their findings from
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 05, 2021
Microbiology
MAY 05, 2021
An image of Bicellum brasieri by Prof P.K. Strother. The fossil suggests multicellular structures existed 400 million ye
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 24, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
FEB 24, 2021
Long ago, fungi colonized the impact crater of an ancient meteor. It seems they may have begun working in partnership wi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 01, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
FEB 01, 2021
When an organism dies, it begins to decay. It's long been assumed that after death, the cells in an organism break down
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 29, 2021
Microbiology
JAN 29, 2021
An international team reported finding a filamentous microfossil found in South China, shown in this image by Andrew Cza
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 31, 2020
Plants & Animals
MAY 31, 2020
Anyone that has ever watched Hollywood’s famous Jurassic Park films will know that dinosaurs were large and hungry
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 17, 2020
Plants & Animals
MAY 17, 2020
If you think back to most of Hollywood’s dinosaur-based films, then you’ll probably remember that the bulk o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 05, 2020
Plants & Animals
JAN 05, 2020
If you were to ask a bunch of random people off the street to begin naming dinosaurs, then the infamous Tyrannosaurus re
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 28, 2019
Plants & Animals
JUL 28, 2019
Millions of years before the dawn of humankind, dinosaurs walked the Earth. While they aren’t around today to tell
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 03, 2019
Plants & Animals
JUN 03, 2019
Lots of people are running to the theater to see the latest Godzilla: King of the Monsters film, and while it may be a w
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 22, 2019
Plants & Animals
APR 22, 2019
Hidden somewhere in a drawer in Kenya’s Nairobi National Museum were fossilized bones that stayed off the radar fo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 16, 2019
Plants & Animals
APR 16, 2019
Perhaps the most easily discernable dinosaur of all time is the Tyrannosaurus Rex, made infamous by Hollywood films such
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 09, 2019
Plants & Animals
APR 09, 2019
It’s not uncommon for paleontologists to unearth dinosaur fossils in the form of well-preserved bones or tracks, b
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 21, 2019
Plants & Animals
JAN 21, 2019
Standing tall in the display room of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois is Sue the T. Rex, an incr
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 01, 2019
Neuroscience
JAN 01, 2019
When you imagine a Neanderthal, what comes to mind? For many, the brain paints a picture of a primitive person; one ofte
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 17, 2018
Plants & Animals
DEC 17, 2018
Although dinosaurs don’t walk the Earth with us today, they left behind a plethora of fossilized bones and remnant
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 10, 2018
Plants & Animals
DEC 10, 2018
With as much excavating as paleontologists do, it’s no surprise that they’re always happening upon new fossi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 03, 2018
Plants & Animals
SEP 03, 2018
Dinosaur evolution is a hot topic in the scientific community because it can help us understand how and why modern anima
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 24, 2018
Videos
JUN 24, 2018
As snow falls, glacial ice preserves air, water, and biological material. Over time, years and years of biological mater
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
JUN 20, 2018
Earth & The Environment
JUN 20, 2018
Recently discovered amber from Myanmar is giving us new information on what life was like 99 million years ago. The ambe
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
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