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A ptotally pterrific pterobranch: amazing Cambrian fossil discovered
Pterobranch? It’s a type of hemichordate. Hemichordate...? Not the most familiar group of animals, for sure, but in evolutionary terms hemichordates are very important. To understand why, we first need to consider chordates – and before that, we need to consider vertebrates…
Five Leicester researchers who SET an example
On 14 March, 60 promising researchers travelled down to the House of Commons to present some of the impressive work that they have begun their careers with for a national poster competition.
University of Leicester in the News: 7 to 13 March 2011
A regular review of coverage of the University in the media
Leicester graduates in the news: Jason Taylor
The Halifax Evening Courier has a short interview with a Leicester geology graduate whose job takes him up and down mountains.
Leicester geologists measure magnitude of earthquake off Japan coast
It’s followed the similarly devastating earthquake that has hit New Zealand, but reports say the earthquake that caused a massive tsunami to hit the coast of Japan was even bigger.
