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Paleontologists are working hard to understand oceanic remains buried high in the Andes

PhD candidate Dirley Cortés says that it takes grit and guts to navigate the challenges of being a Latin American woman in palaeontology. PhD candidate Dirley Cortés says that it takes grit and guts to navigate the challenges of being a Latin American woman in palaeontology.

Paleontologists pieced together a food chain from Paja Formation fossils, showing an additional level of apex predators with no modern equivalent.

What allowed an ecosystem to support toothy predators all over the food chain?

A fossil record in central Colombia reveals how marine animals evolved during a period of environmental change.