古生物学将前沿的成像和分析技术应用于化石记录，以解读整个生命历史中生物的进化，祖先和生态。古生物学将现代生物多样性纳入地质时期，并提供了监测和预测生物圈未来轨迹的手段。该专业知识将为您提供有关生命进化的“深度时间”观点。通过研究化石记录，您将探索微生物，动植物的早期进化和系统发育，深层重要事件的发生时间和相关性，以及有关随时间变化的生态和环境参数的基本问题。您将确定形态和解剖特征，研究进化过程，使用前沿的科学方法和技术来重建过去的环境，气候和行为，并使用化石作为解决重要的生物学，生态，环境，地质和动物考古
Palaeobiology applies frontier imaging and analytical techniques to the fossil record to decipher the evolution, ancestry and ecology of organisms throughout the history of life. Palaeobiology places modern biodiversity into the context of geological time, and provides a means for monitoring and predicting future trajectories of the biosphere. This specialisation will provide you with a ‘deep time' perspective on the evolution of life. By studying the fossil record, you'll explore the early evolution and phylogeny of microbes, animals and plants, the timing and correlation of important events in deep time, and fundamental questions about fluctuating ecological and environmental parameters through time. You'll identify morphological and anatomical features, study evolutionary processes, use frontier scientific methods and techniques to reconstruct past environments, climates and behaviours, and use fossils as tools to solve important biological, ecological, environmental, geological and zooarchaeological problems.