In the News

21 Sep 2023
Tiffany has new paper on fossil feather proteins in Nature Ecology and Evolution
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.
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20 Sep 2023
New paper published in Proceedings B on insect colour patterns
This paper was led by Dr Shengyu Wang, who completed part of the work on the paper during a research visit to UCC.
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18 Sep 2023
Awards for two Cork Palaeo Group members at the 67th PalAss Annual Meeting
PhD students Dan Cirtina and Aaron Quigley both came away from the recent PalAss meeting in Cambridge with awards for their presentations.
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19 Jul 2023
NEW! Zixiao publishes new paper on pterosaurs in Proceedings B!
This paper explores how giant pterosaurs grew to be so big. We found that giant pterosaurs such as Pteranodon evolved parental care that may have allowed faster/longer growth and ultimately, large adult sizes.
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