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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The oldest known sperm in the world has been discovered, locked in a piece of amber that solidified when behemoths like Spinosaurus dominated the Earth. The giant sperm comes from a much more ...

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The Museum’s collection of fossil and recent (living) ostracods includes 20,000 single specimen mounts and many faunal slides. Over half of the collection is from the UK, but it also includes material ...

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 oldest petrified sperm ever discovered is gargantuan, at least for a gamete. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The sperm comes ...