Paleobiology (or palaeobiology) is an interdisciplinary field that combines the methods and findings found in both the earth sciences and the life sciences. Paleobiology is not to be confused with geobiology, which focuses more on the interactions between the …

Paleobiology publishes original contributions of any length (but normally 10-50 manuscript pages) dealing with any aspect of biological paleontology.

Our mission is to increase public and scientific understanding of the biological and environmental history of Earth through the study of fossil animals, plants, and protists.

The Paleobiology Database is a public database of paleontological data that anyone can use, maintained by an international non-governmental group of paleontologists.

Within Invertebrate Paleontology our researchers focus on understanding the causes and consequences of the end-Permian Mass Extinction that occurred 252 million years ago when 95% of all marine invertebrate species died out.

Paleobiology publishes original articles that emphasize biological or paleobiological processes and patterns including: speciation, extinction, development of individuals and colonies, natural selection, evolution, and patterns of variation, abundance and distribution of organisms in space and time. Papers concerning recent organisms and ...

In the Payne Paleobiology Lab, we study the relationship between environmental change and biological evolution over geological timescales through field studies, geochemical measurements and modeling, and statistical analysis of large datasets.

Bioturbation increases time averaging despite promoting shell disintegration: a test using anthropogenic gradients in sediment accumulation and burrowing on the southern California shelf

Paleobiology & Evolution research at UCSB covers a wide range of times and organisms, including the fossil record of early life,, the Cambrian explosion and the early history of animals, the evolution of land plants, especially angiosperms of the …

Reconstructing diversity dynamics prevalent during the geologic past is the essential task of paleobiology (Svenning et al., 2011; Newham et al., 2014). There is a long history of diversity counts of fossil organisms in order to understand the evolution of life through geological time (see Servais et al., 2010 , for a review on the history of ...