The comment highlights issues with a recent attempts to reconstruct the original melanin-based colour in sauropod dinosaurs.

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Thank you to all for joining us on our Heritage Week - Urban Fossil Walks.

We are delighted to share an unexpected discovery during Heritage Week – a fabulous section through a crinoid stem, check out our Instagram: @corkpalaeo for more photos!

We had a great turnout at all of our Urban Fossil Walk locations and look forward to our next series of walks!

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Maria recently spoke at DinoCon 2026 in Birmingham.

Thanks to all who visited the Careers Panel on Saturday.
Maria also gave a talk “Could Jurassic Park really happen?” on Sunday!

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This paper outlines the first step in improving the reliability of predicting fossil feather colour by investigating the statistical differences between melanin-based colour categories defined by human colour categorisation.