Valentina’s 2022 paper on skin patterning in fossil moonfish is one of the top-downloaded papers in the journal Palaeontology!

Hollie's talk, "Quantitative characterisation of melanin-based feather colour using reflectance spectrophotometry", received a special mention during the prize-giving ceremony.

Dr Balthasar delivered a very interesting lecture "The Mg2+ effect on marine calcifiers through time" to the School this afternoon.

UCC Palaeo Group PI Prof. Maria McNamara is one of the successful awardees in this year's round of funding under the Science Foundation Ireland Discover programme, which funds public engagement initiatives.

Palaeontological analysis shows renowned fossil, thought to show soft tissue preservation, is in fact just paint.

Applications are invited for an 18-month full-time Research Assistant in Public Engagement position funded by Science Foundation Ireland.

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This paper reports the first molecular evidence of ginger pigments in the fossil record, which were found in 10 million-year-old frogs.

This paper finds evidence of proteins in 125 million-year-old feathers, which show that ancient feathers were much more like modern-day feathers than previously thought.

This paper was led by Dr Shengyu Wang, who completed part of the work on the paper during a research visit to UCC.