Outreach and media

Members of our group regularly participate in outreach, public engagement and media events.

Our research in the news

10/03/2016
Jon and Phil's research into crocodyliform diversity across the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary has hit the news today: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-decline-crocodile-ancestors-good-news.html

You can read the original paper here:

Tennant, J., Mannion, P. D. & Upchurch, P. 2016. Environmental drivers of crocodyliform extinction across the Jurassic/Cretaceous transition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2840

29/02/2016
Alessandro's new paper on an enormous abelisaur femur from Morocco caught the attention of the international media: http://phys.org/news/2016-02-fossil-reveals-big-carnivorous-dinosaur.html

You can read the original paper here:

Chiarenza, A. A. & Cau, A. 2016. A large abelisaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from Morocco and comments on the Cenomanian theropods from North Africa. PeerJ. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1754.

Upcoming events

In 2016, you will find us doing the following:

24^th May – Susie will be talking about dinosaurs at the UCL Pint of Science festival at The Slaughtered Lamb pub in Clerkenwell, London, from 7 pm.

14^th July – Susie will be talking about latitudinal biodiversity gradients in deep time at the Hertfordshire Geological Society

Previous events

In May 2016, Alessandro took part in the Imperial College Festival, talking about live, and extinct, animals