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25 January 2021 4 min read
Nearly £100K of funding has been awarded to scientists to help ensure that Tudor warship the Mary Rose and other historic ships at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard - as well as related artefacts such as boots, cannons and gold coins - are protected for years to come.
07 January 2021 3 min read
International research, involving over 170 experts including Dr Heather Rumble from the University of Portsmouth looked at how drones, robots and autonomous systems can transform the natural world in and around cities for people and wildlife
14 December 2020 4 min read
New dinosaur showed descendants how to dress to impress | News | University of Portsmouth
09 December 2020 3 min read
An amateur fossil hunter has unearthed a new type of prehistoric ‘sea dragon’ on the beach of the UK’s Dorset coast.
26 November 2020 3 min read
The only dinosaur bones ever found on the island of Ireland have been formally confirmed for the first time
10 November 2020 3 min read
Palaeontologists have made a surprising discovery while searching through 100-year-old fossil collections from the UK – a new mystery species of pterosaur, unlike anything seen before.
13 October 2020 4 min read
A new species of small pterosaur - similar in size to a turkey - has been discovered, which is unlike any other pterosaur seen before due to its long slender toothless beak.
28 September 2020 3 min read
The debate about when dinosaurs developed feathers has taken a new turn with a paper refuting earlier claims that feathers were also found on dinosaurs’ relatives, the flying reptiles called pterosaurs.
18 September 2020 3 min read
Portsmouth Palaeontologists establish Spinosaurus was a real life ‘river monster’.
15 September 2020 6 min read
Pterosaurs - winged cousins of dinosaurs - evolved sensitive beaks to allow them to find food, like modern birds such as ducks, sandpipers and kiwis, according to a new paper by the universities of Portsmouth and Bath.
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