Preservation of uropygial gland lipids in a 48-million-year-old bird

Organic compound-mineral interactions: Using flash pyrolysis to monitor the adsorption of fatty acids on calcite

(2017) Rabia Zafar et al.   JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL AND APPLIED PYROLYSIS

Low fossilization potential of keratin protein revealed by experimental taphonomy

(2017) Evan T. Saitta et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Molecular biosignatures reveal common benthic microbial sources of organic matter in ooids and grapestones from Pigeon Cay, The Bahamas

(2016) S. S. O'Reilly et al.   Geobiology

Fossilization of melanosomes via sulfurization

(2016) Maria E. McNamara et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Microscopical and elemental FESEM and Phenom ProX-SEM-EDS analysis of osteocyte- and blood vessel-like microstructures obtained from fossil vertebrates of the Eocene Messel Pit, Germany

(2016) Edwin Cadena   PeerJ

Organic matter preservation in the carbonate matrix of a recent microbial mat – Is there a ‘mat seal effect’?

(2015) Martin Blumenberg et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Chemical, experimental, and morphological evidence for diagenetically altered melanin in exceptionally preserved fossils

(2015) Caitlin Colleary et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New palynology-based astronomical and revised 40Ar/39Ar ages for the Eocene maar lake of Messel (Germany)

(2014) Olaf K. Lenz et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Pyrolysis GC–MS as a novel analysis technique to determine the biochemical composition of microalgae

(2014) P. Biller et al.   Algal Research-Biomass Biofuels and Bioproducts

Chelicerate neural ground pattern in a Cambrian great appendage arthropod

(2013) Gengo Tanaka et al.   NATURE

Impact of diagenesis and maturation on the survival of eumelanin in the fossil record

(2013) Keely Glass et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Experimental formation of geomacromolecules from microbial lipids

(2013) Neal S. Gupta et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Occurrence and fate of fatty acyl biomarkers in an ancient whale bone (Oligocene, El Cien Formation, Mexico)

(2013) Volker Thiel et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Exceptional preservation of Palaeozoic steroids in a diagenetic continuum

(2013) Ines Melendez et al.   Scientific Reports

Biomarkers reveal the role of photic zone euxinia in exceptional fossil preservation: An organic geochemical perspective

(2012) Ines Melendez et al.   GEOLOGY

Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod

(2012) Xiaoya Ma et al.   NATURE

Direct chemical evidence for eumelanin pigment from the Jurassic period

(2012) K. Glass et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structural coloration in a fossil feather

(2009) J. Vinther et al.   Biology Letters

Rapid incorporation of lipids into macromolecules during experimental decay of invertebrates: Initiation of geopolymer formation

(2009) Neal S. Gupta et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

The colour of fossil feathers

(2008) J. Vinther et al.   Biology Letters