The winners of the 2024 National Fossil Art Contest are now on display at the Glucksman art gallery in Cork until the 24th of May 2024. The contest was run by the UCC programme Ireland’s Fossil Heritage and was open to children from 4 – 18 years old. The theme of the contest was “Irish Fossils ALIVE”. The winning entries were submitted by children from all over Ireland from County Donegal to Cork.

UCC palaeontologists have solved a hundred-year-old mystery of how some fossil frogs preserve their fleshy parts – it’s all down to their skin.

Recreation of 500-year-old painting highlights achievements of Irish women and the need for ongoing social change.

Ireland’s Fossil Heritage is hosting a public walk in Cork city centre on Monday April 15th from 11.30 am – 12.30 pm as part of the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival.

In her talk, Maria spoke about recent attempts to unravel the mysteries surrounding the concept of resurrecting extinct species.

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.