The Cretaceous basins of Brazil have long been recognised as treasure troves of ostracod microfossils, whose diversity and preservation offer an unrivalled window into past environments and basin ...

When David Siveter examined rocks collected from rural west England in the 1990s, he didn't expect to find the world's oldest-known penis. When the University of Leicester palaeontologist and his ...

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Homonymy and other man-created taxonomic afflictions of Recent Ostracoda / Henry V. Howe -- The history of Bernix tatei Jones 1884 / J.E. Robinson -- Numerical taxonomy of selected Recent British ...

The postage-stamp sized sample of amber contained 39 half-millimeter-long crustaceans called ostracods, including 31 of a new species. Image by He Wang and Xiangdong Zhao Scientists have identified ...

The oldest petrified sperm ever discovered is gargantuan, at least for a gamete. The sperm comes from the early Miocene epoch, between about 23 million and 16 million years ago, and belonged to a tiny ...