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Dinosaur

Scientists have measured the nutritional value of herbivore dinosaurs’ diet by growing their food in atmospheric conditions similar to those found roughly 150 million years ago.

Missing bones

Fossils come in many shapes and sizes, ranging from isolated fragments of bones and teeth to complete skeletons.

Researchers from the School of Earth and Environment have played a major role in securing £16m of funding from the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).

Clown fish at Flynn Reef Cathedral, Great Barrier Reed, Australia. Credit: Andrea Clark

One of the largest global mass extinctions did not fundamentally change marine ecosystems, scientists have found.

Prof. Xiangkun Zhu and Kan Zhang sampling rocks from North China that record an oxygenation event coincident with the evolution of complex eukaryotes.

An international team of scientists have found evidence for a progressive oxygenation event beginning ~1,570 million years ago.