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.
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Maria awarded €300K from Science Foundation Ireland!
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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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Tiffany and Maria publish article in The Conversation on fossil biomolecules
17 Nov 2023Please read on for article link!
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Tiffany's findings on ginger pigments in fossil record published in Nat Comms!
06 Oct 2023This paper reports the first molecular evidence of ginger pigments in the fossil record, which were found in 10 million-year-old frogs.
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Tiffany has new paper on fossil feather proteins in Nature Ecology and Evolution
21 Sep 2023This 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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New paper published in Proceedings B on insect colour patterns
20 Sep 2023This 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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Awards for two Cork Palaeo Group members at the 67th PalAss Annual Meeting
18 Sep 2023PhD 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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NEW! Zixiao publishes new paper on pterosaurs in Proceedings B!
19 Jul 2023This 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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Dr Valentina Rossi wins Paleontological Society Grant
15 Jun 2023The "Norman Newell Early Career Grant Program" is part of the Paleontological Society Grant scheme in support of early-career palaeontologists.
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