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Older than dinosaurs: scientists from the Institute of Zoology discovered over a hundred Paleozoic amphibian skeletons 70 km from Almaty

From October 4 to 12, the team of the Institute of Zoology of Kazakhstan conducted a short but successful expedition to the Kurty locality in Almaty Region — one of the few continental Paleozoic sites in Kazakhstan. The exposed rocks here date back to the Permian period, about 280 million years old, meaning that the organisms found in Kurty lived long before the age of dinosaurs.

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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER – new discoveries in the fossil fauna of Karatau!

“Jurassic Lake Karatau” is the world’s largest Jurassic insect locality, located on the northeastern slope of the Karatau range, at the border of Zhambyl and Turkestan regions. It is one of the few places on Earth where exceptionally thin-bedded rocks, known as “paper” or “fish” shales, preserve remains of animals and plants that lived about 160 million years ago. More than 800 species of Mesozoic insects are known from here, along with unique finds of pterosaurs, amphibians, and fishes that inhabited Kazakhstan during the age of dinosaurs.

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Scientific Internship “500 Scientists”

Congratulations to our colleague – Tulendy Tuleshevich Nurkenov, Head of the Laboratory of Cryobiology and Biobank of Wild Animal Germplasm at the Institute of Zoology of the Republic of Kazakhstan, on his well-deserved victory in the “500 Scientists” scientific internships competition under the state program “Bolashak”, which gives Kazakh scientists the opportunity to undertake internships at leading global centers and universities.

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