This is the highest honour awarded to academics in Ireland and recognises exceptional contributions to the sciences and humanities.
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Maria elected to the Royal Irish Academy!
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Zixiao’s discovery on dinosaur skin published in Nature Communications!
21 May 2024This paper presents the first fossil evidence that the feathered dinosaur Psittacosaurus, and probably other early feathered animals, had scaly reptile-type skin in naked regions and bird-like skin in feathered regions.
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Children's Fossil Art on Display in Glucksman Gallery
13 May 2024The 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.
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Daniel's new paper in Scientific Reports! Fossil frogs share skin care secrets!
23 Apr 2024UCC 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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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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