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BEES palaeontologists have discovered 125 million year old dandruff preserved amongst the plumage of feathered dinosaurs and early birds from the famous Jehol biota from Liaoning in NE China.
Read ArticleGabrielle Davidson and members of UCC Ornithology Group have shown links between behaviour and life history traits in wild great tits, as published in Royal Society Open Science. At the individual level, great tits differed in how scared they were of novel objects and predator eyes placed on their nest box, while at the population level, they treated both stimuli as equally scary. Bolder birds that entered the box quickly were in better body condition & tended to have more offspring. Supporting ethical publishing practices, this paper is 100% open access for anyone to read.
Dr Sharon Lynch and Prof. Sarah Culloty have just published a new paper with colleagues from the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Thailand. First author, Tawut Rudtanatip conducted some of his research in BEES for 6 months (October 2015 to March 2016), as part of his PhD (which he has since been awarded) facilitated by the Royal Golden Jubilee (RGJ) Scholarship. His supervisor was Prof. Kanokpan Wongprasert.
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