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.

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.