Earth and Environmental Sciences (SEES)

Scientists Discover New Species of Prehistoric Giants

Four SEES palaeobiologists joined a month-long expedition to the Sahara desert along with Nizar Ibrahim of University College Dublin and Moroccan geologists Samir Zouhri and Lahssen Baidder and returned home with more than they ever dreamed of finding. Dave Martill, Reader in Paleobiology, talks about their discoveries.

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Giant prehistoric pterosaurs descend on London

Researchers from SEES are being featured on the BBC website as part of an ongoing project in conjunction with Royal Society's Summer Exhibition.

The 2010 Summer Science Exhibition, held on 26 June - 4 July 2010, is the Royal Society's 350th anniversary and will be at the Southbank Centre in London.  Surrounded by a packed nine-day festival of events, the exhibition will form the centrepiece of the biggest year of science yet.

Over the course of 12 months, the BBC followed a team of researchers from SEES as they built five giant pterosaur models. The life-size models of the flying giants - the largest of which will have a wing span of 10m - went on display as part of the exhibition. Two of the models were stationed on the ground, allowing visitors to view the pterosaurs up close, while three others were suspended, as in flight, between nearby buildings.

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Fred Dinenage talks to Dr Dave Martill about the making of the models.

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