Last week, our team, together with Jules, a Master’s student currently undertaking an internship within the project, travelled to the Republic of Moldova to work in fossil collections and meet with our Moldovan partners. During our time in Chișinău, we worked in the paleontological collections of the Institute of Zoology and the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History. These collections preserve important Late Pleistocene fossil assemblages from cave sites across t

The first four months flew by quickly, and we’re excited to share what we’ve been working on! Between September and December 2025, the Re-Connect team made steady progress in shaping the project’s working methodology and gathering the first datasets. What we have done until now: 1. Development of the Working Methodology We established a standardized protocol for fossil documentation and sampling, starting from non-invasive approaches (inventory, photography, taphonomy) and

Last week, the Re-Connect team reunited in Bucharest for our first working meeting and the project started to take shape. We began by sorting out the practical things: administrative details, financial planning, and outlining the roadmap for our first year. With this foundation in place, we’re confident that the months ahead will unfold smoothly. With the groundwork set, we moved on to the first morpho-osteometric analyses, marking the first steps toward building a much large

We’re excited to share that our journey with the Re-Connect project has officially begun and so has our new website! This platform will serve as a central hub for sharing updates, research insights, and resources about our ongoing work. At its core, Re-Connect aims to shed new light on one of the key-questions in Quaternary science: what ecological and climatic factors shaped the fate of large mammals during the Late Pleistocene–Holocene transition ? Our work focuses on the