<description>&lt;p&gt;Travis went to Europe and Alyssa went to Chattanooga. All to find out more about your favourite fossils. We bring you some news on extraordinary palaeo discoveries, a fascinating interview with Dr Indrani Mukherjee about the state of geoscience in Australia and her research into Earth's earliest life, and Alyssa ranks 2025's big hits (come at her).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;__ &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tess Gallagher, Dan Folkes, Michael Pittman, Tom G. Kaye, Glenn W. Storrs, Jason Schein; Fossilized melanosomes reveal colour patterning of a sauropod dinosaur. &lt;em&gt;R Soc Open Sci.&lt;/em&gt; 1 December 2025; 12 (12): 251232. &lt;a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251232"&gt;https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251232&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Delclòs, X., Peñalver, E., Jaramillo, C. &lt;em&gt;et al.&lt;/em&gt; Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America’s Gondwanan forests. &lt;em&gt;Commun Earth Environ&lt;/em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;, 745 (2025). &lt;a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02625-2"&gt;https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02625-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Fossils and Fiction

Travis Holland and Alyssa Fjeld.

The crisis in geoscience

JAN 22, 202664 MIN
Fossils and Fiction

The crisis in geoscience

JAN 22, 202664 MIN

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<p>Travis went to Europe and Alyssa went to Chattanooga. All to find out more about your favourite fossils. We bring you some news on extraordinary palaeo discoveries, a fascinating interview with Dr Indrani Mukherjee about the state of geoscience in Australia and her research into Earth's earliest life, and Alyssa ranks 2025's big hits (come at her).</p><p>__ </p><p>Tess Gallagher, Dan Folkes, Michael Pittman, Tom G. Kaye, Glenn W. Storrs, Jason Schein; Fossilized melanosomes reveal colour patterning of a sauropod dinosaur. <em>R Soc Open Sci.</em> 1 December 2025; 12 (12): 251232. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251232">https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251232</a></p><p>Delclòs, X., Peñalver, E., Jaramillo, C. <em>et al.</em> Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America’s Gondwanan forests. <em>Commun Earth Environ</em> <strong>6</strong>, 745 (2025). <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02625-2">https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02625-2</a></p>