Department of Geoscience

Department of Geosciences

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More than

30

Professorships

More than

12

Million €/a External Funding

In total

18

Study Programs

More than

300

Graduates per Year

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Perfectly preserved fossil of the Solnhofia parsonsi turtle, approx. 150 million years old. 

27.07.2023

Perfectly preserved turtle fossil gives clues to habitat 150 million years ago

University of Tübingen research team analyzes sea turtle from the Upper Jurassic - when southern…

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Lateral view of the skulls of (a) Alligator munensis and (b) the Chinese alligator, Alligator sinensis.

13.07.2023

Chinese alligator had Asian relatives around 200,000 years ago

University of Tübingen researchers show fossil skull from Thailand belonged to a previously unknown…

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Relations between humans, ravens and other animals 30,000 years ago.

22.06.2023

Ravens were attracted to humans’ food more than 30,000 years ago

University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment team…

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