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Our exhibit for the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 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.

Please click  for Youtube link (video courtesy of Tim Cockerill and Sander Loite of Imperial ÉîÒ¹ÑÇÖÞ¸£Àû¾Ã¾Ã).