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.
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Daniel's new paper in Scientific Reports! Fossil frogs share skin care secrets!
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Maria features in an all-female re-enactment of Raphael’s famous “School of Athens” fresco!
08 Apr 2024Recreation of 500-year-old painting highlights achievements of Irish women and the need for ongoing social change.
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Cork City Fossil Walk!
28 Mar 2024Ireland’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.
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Maria delivers Science in Society lecture: Could Jurassic Park really happen?
25 Mar 2024In her talk, Maria spoke about recent attempts to unravel the mysteries surrounding the concept of resurrecting extinct species.
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Top downloaded paper for Valentina!
19 Mar 2024Valentina’s 2022 paper on skin patterning in fossil moonfish is one of the top-downloaded papers in the journal Palaeontology!
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Hollie awarded runner-up best ECR talk at IGRM!
04 Mar 2024Hollie's talk, "Quantitative characterisation of melanin-based feather colour using reflectance spectrophotometry", received a special mention during the prize-giving ceremony.
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Dr Uwe Balthasar visits the School of BEES!
01 Mar 2024Dr Balthasar delivered a very interesting lecture "The Mg2+ effect on marine calcifiers through time" to the School this afternoon.
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Maria awarded €300K from Science Foundation Ireland!
28 Feb 2024UCC 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.
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Valentina's discovery on fossil forgery published in Palaeontology!
16 Feb 2024Palaeontological analysis shows renowned fossil, thought to show soft tissue preservation, is in fact just paint.
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NEW! Research Assistant in Public Engagement position available!
24 Jan 2024Applications are invited for an 18-month full-time Research Assistant in Public Engagement position funded by Science Foundation Ireland.
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