Basics of Palaeontology

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This skill course offers the basics of palaeontology, providing you with the tools and knowledge to start unraveling our past. You will gain the skills to analyse and interpret fossils and ancient ecosystems in order to grasp evolutionary and climatic changes over time. Being equipped with the techniques to uncover Earth’s past, you will become knowledgeable regarding the evolution of various forms of life and the transformation of habitats over billions of years. Palaeontology is more than just collecting fossils, this course shows how palaeontologists use a wide array of different techniques in order to analyse fossil evidence and reconstruct past environments and significant events in Earth’s History.