Join palaeontologist and author Dr Elsa Panciroli on Wednesday the 2nd October, 6-8pm, at the Hunterian Museum to hear about her groundbreaking research on fossils from Skye!

Discoveries of fossils from the Isle of Skye are revealing new information about the origin and evolution of multiple small vertebrate animal groups. The most recent of these finds has shown that mammals – which thrived alongside the dinosaurs – lived longer and grew more slowly in the Jurassic than similar sized mammals do today.

Work led by Dr Panciroli has revealed new information about mammal growth and development, and reconstructed the most complete Mesozoic mammal skeletons known from the UK, including the first skeleton of a juvenile mammal from this time period. The fossils come from the Kilmaluag Formation, which represents a Middle Jurassic freshwater lagoon environment, dated to approximately 166 Ma. Discoveries made in these limestones over the last decade include early salamanders, small reptiles, and mammals, many of them among the best-preserved skeletons from this time period in the world.

Cost: £3 concession, £6 general admission.

Tickets available via Eventbrite – here.

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