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IPC7 - The 7th International Palaeontological Congress
🗓️ When? 30 November – 3 December, 2026
📍Where? Cape Town, South Africa
👇More info in our web
https://www.ipc7.site/
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🎉 Join us for the 7th International Paleontological Congress in Cape Town! 🇿🇦

Paleontologists from around the world will gather to share discoveries, ideas, and inspiration.

Don't miss this unforgettable event!
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#IPC7 #Paleontology
Symposia 🔍
Among our 29 themed symposia + 1 open symposium.
Today we are pleased to feature:

✨ Paleobionics: the biomechanical factors that drive evolution✨
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
There will be 29 themed symposia and one open general symposium at the upcoming IPC7.

📢 Today we highlight:
✨Recent advances in vertebrate taphonomy✨

📩 To participate in this symposium or get more information, contact the convener:
🔸Roger Smith — [email protected]
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Symposia 🔍

There will be 29 themed symposia and one open general symposium at the upcoming IPC7.

📢 Today we highlight:
✨Recent advances in dinosaur eggs and reproduction✨
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Symposia 🔍

There will be 29 themed symposia and one open general symposium at the upcoming IPC7.

📢 Today we highlight:
✨The Precambrian: the earliest chronicles of life on Earth✨
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
There will be 29 themed symposia + one general symposium at the IPC7.
Today we highlight:
✨Origins: Triassic and Early Jurassic dinosaurs✨

To participate, contact the conveners:
Jonah N. Choiniere — [email protected] Paul M. Barrett — [email protected] @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
There will be 29 themed symposia + one general symposium at the IPC7.

Today we highlight:

✨The History and pre-history of palaeosciences, geomyths, and indigenous palaeontology

To participate , contact the convener:
🔸Julien Benoit — [email protected]
October 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Symposia 🔍
There will be 29 themed symposia and one open general symposium at the upcoming IPC7.

📢 Today we highlight:
✨New directions in palaeoanthropological research in Southern Africa✨
October 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
There will be 29 themed symposia and one open general symposium at the upcoming IPC7.

📢 Today we highlight:
✨Flight evolution in vertebrates✨

📩 To participate in this symposium or get more information, contact the convener:
🔸Michael Pittman —[email protected]
October 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
These are just half of the amazing symposia that will be held at the upcoming IPC7!

If you’d like to participate, get in touch with the conveners of each symposium — more symposia will be announced soon!
Visit our website to explore all the details: ipc7.site
October 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Symposia 🔍

There will be 29 themed symposia and one open general symposium at the upcoming IPC7.

📢 Today we highlight:

✨Vegetation change and plant-insect interaction from the Palaeozoic until modern times - Case studies from Africa and beyond✨
October 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Symposia 🔍

There will be 29 themed symposia and one open general symposium at the upcoming IPC7.

📢 Today we highlight:
✨Advances on the histology of the mineralised tissues of vertebrates✨
September 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
There will be 29 themed symposia and one open general symposium at the upcoming IPC7.

Today we highlight:
✨Filling knowledge gaps in the Early Palaeozoic Biodiversification✨

To participate, contact the conveners:
🔸Rocks and the Rise of Ordovician life IGCP735 — [email protected]
September 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
There will be 29 themed symposia + one general symposium at the upcoming IPC7.

📢 Today we highlight:
✨Cenozoic vertebrates of Africa✨

To participate in this symposium, contact the convener:
🔸Alberto Valenciano — [email protected]
🔸Adam Hartstone-Rose — [email protected]
September 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Symposia 🔍

Among our 29 themed symposia + 1 open symposium, we are pleased to feature:

✨ Life in the Phanerozoic Oceans: Evolution, diversity and ecology in deep time marine ecosystems✨

📩 To participate in this symposium or get more information, contact the conveners: 👇
September 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Symposia 🔍
The IPC7 will feature 29 themed symposia + 1 open symposium!

✨ Today we showcase:
Paleoneurology, cognition, and behaviour of vertebrates, from fish to hominins

📩 To participate in this symposium, contact the conveners:
🔸@ameliebeaudet.bsky.social
🔸 [email protected]
September 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Reposted by IPC7
IPC7 will host 29 themed symposia plus one open general symposium.

🌟Today we feature:
Ichnology – traces as multi-disciplinary lenses into the deep past

For participation or further details:
Miengah Abrahams — [email protected]
Emese Bordy — [email protected]
September 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
IPC7 will host 29 themed symposia plus one open general symposium.

🌟Today we feature:
Ichnology – traces as multi-disciplinary lenses into the deep past

For participation or further details:
Miengah Abrahams — [email protected]
Emese Bordy — [email protected]
September 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
IPC7 will held 29 themed symposia + 1 open symposium.

Today we feature:

✨Ichthyosaur evolution and biology✨

📩 To participate in this symposium, contact the conveners:

Lene Liebe Delsett — [email protected] @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social
Judith Pardo-Pérez — [email protected]
September 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Among the 29 themed symposia + one general symposium 👇

✨The Evolution and Diversification of Life in the Neoproterozoic and Cambrian✨

For more info, contact the conveners:
Erik Sperling — [email protected]
Scott Evans — [email protected]
Lidya Tarhan — [email protected]
September 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🔍 Symposia

IPC7 will host 29 themed symposia plus one open general symposium.

🌟 Today we feature:
Pangea in crisis: life on land during the Permian–Triassic

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September 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
There will be 29 themed symposia + an general symposium at the IPC7!

We highlight 📢 Evolution of brain and cranial anatomy through five major extinctions✨

To participate contact the convener:
Sanjukta Chakravorti — [email protected] and [email protected]
August 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Among our 29 themed symposia + 1 open symposium, we are pleased to feature:

✨ Communicating palaeosciences

To participate, contact the conveners:
Marina Joubert ([email protected]) @marinajoubert.bsky.social
Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan ([email protected]) @palaeo-prof.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Reposted by IPC7
Symposia 🔍

The IPC7 will feature 29 themed symposia + 1 open symposium.

✨ Today we showcase:
Devonian stratigraphy, environments and palaeontology with focus on Gondwana
August 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Symposia 🔍

The IPC7 will feature 29 themed symposia + 1 open symposium.

✨ Today we showcase:
Devonian stratigraphy, environments and palaeontology with focus on Gondwana
August 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
There will be 29 themed symposia and one open general symposium at the upcoming IPC7.

📢 Today we highlight:
Major biotic events during the Ordovician and Silurian and their dynamics

To participate:
Zhan Renbin — [email protected]
Alycia Stigall — [email protected]

🔗 More info 👉 www.ipc7.site
August 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM