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• Ptero Firma: footprints pinpoint when ancient flying reptiles conquered the ground

  Date: 1 May 2025

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  Study led by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ links fossilised flying reptile tracks to animals that made them, revealing a 160-million-year-old...

• New species revealed after 25 years of study on ‘inside out’ fossil – and named after discoverer’s mum

  Date: 27 Mar 2025

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  Study from Â鶹ÊÓƵ describes a new species of fossil that is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved and saw...

• Wind turbine remains may be among ‘most surprising’ fossils for far future generations, palaeontologists say

  Date: 12 Mar 2025

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ palaeontologists publishing new book on technofossils suggest that wind turbine blades, made from difficult to recycle...

• Discovery of new 430 million-year-old fossils challenges our understanding of ancient molluscs

  Date: 8 Jan 2025

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  Study involving Â鶹ÊÓƵ scientist examines ‘exceptionally preserved’ soft tissues in fossils

• A festive flying pterosaur family reunion 150 million years in the making

  Date: 19 Dec 2024

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ study finds nearly 50 hidden relatives of Pterodactylus, the first pterosaur

• Antarctica’s irregular heartbeat shows signs of rapid melting

  Date: 10 Dec 2024

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  Geoscientists led by Universities of Leicester and Southampton create new climate record for early Antarctic ice ages and reveal that the early...

• Research to understand peatland policy ‘on the ground’

  Date: 12 Nov 2024

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  Postgraduate research at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ is seeking to understand how peatland policy is implemented at a local level, gaining...

• Pterosaurs needed feet on the ground to become giants

  Date: 4 Oct 2024

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ study determines when and how pterosaurs went from tiny tree-climbers to towering terrestrial titans

• Leicester geoscientist makes expedition to the site of Japanese earthquake

  Date: 16 Sep 2024

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  A Â鶹ÊÓƵ geoscientist is joining the crew of a science vessel investigating the site of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan.

• Leicester experts call for recognition of the Anthropocene epoch

  Date: 27 Aug 2024

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  Geologists from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (UK) have joined forces with more than 50 peers to call for an official recognition of a proposed...