A neat piece of work published in 2008 by several former colleagues in the Journal Cretaceous Research described some ostracods, spores and pollen from a dinosaur excavation site at Ockley in Surrey.

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 ...

"If you have a garden pond, you have ostracods. They have the longest and most ostentatious display of sex of any animal group in the fossil record. We can identify males and females back to 500 ...

Two of the ostracod species occur also in the Trinity of Texas and Arkansas, and the entire ostracod fauna bears a close resemblance to Upper Purbeck-Wealden of England. The absence of known Lower ...

An ostracod's penis can be relatively big too; up to a third of the animal's total volume. It's why the fossilised creature was dubbed Colymbosathon ecplecticos, which is Greek for "outstanding ...

Microfossils have a tendency to muck with our timeline of when life formed on Earth. As their name suggests, these ancient rocks contain the tiny fossilized remains of protists and bacteria, and ...

Sometimes microfossils are preserved as hair-like tubular filaments of organic carbon. Sometimes the organic carbon has long since disappeared and a microorganism-shaped hole in the rock is all ...

NaturePlusA neat piece of work published in 2008 by several former colleagues in the Journal Cretaceous Research described some ostracods, spores and pollen from a dinosaur excavation site at Ockley ...