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

  Date: 27 Mar 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/new-species-inside-out-fossil-named-after-mum

  Study from University of Leicester 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

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/wind-turbine-remains-surprising-fossils-palaeontology

  University of Leicester 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

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/punk-emo

  Study involving University of Leicester scientist examines ‘exceptionally preserved’ soft tissues in fossils

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

  Date: 19 Dec 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/pterosaur-reunion

  University of Leicester study finds nearly 50 hidden relatives of Pterodactylus, the first pterosaur

• Antarctica’s irregular heartbeat shows signs of rapid melting

  Date: 10 Dec 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/ice-sheets

  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

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/peatlands

  Postgraduate research at the University of Leicester 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

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/pterosaur

  University of Leicester 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

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/japan

  A University of Leicester 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

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/anthropocene

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

• Ocean temperature record unlocked from Fijian coral reveals highest warmth in over six centuries

  Date: 14 Aug 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/coral-warming

  Unique 627 year-long record of ocean temperatures in the Fijian archipelago published by international team co-led by University of Leicester