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2013 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

31 Mar 2013

Read about our exhibit for the prestigious .

The exhibit is titled ‘Prehistoric colours in fossil insects and feathers’ and is being developed by a team of palaeontologists that includes Dr Stuart Kearns, Prof. Mike Benton and Mr Chris Rogers from the ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã of Bristol, Dr Paddy Orr from ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Dublin, and ten postgraduate students from the ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã of Bristol and Yale ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã. Our exhibit will incorporate fossils (feathers, metallic insects, and a specimen of Sinosauropteryx), fossilisation experiments, a scanning electron microscope, and even a fossilisation video game. Read more about our exhibit .

Maria McNamara Research Group

Experimental and analytical taphonomy

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School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES), ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã College Cork (UCC), Butler Building, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, T23 TK30, Ireland

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