Long Live Mammals in the Time of Dinosaurs
Resource type
Lecture
Creator (person)
Panciroli, Elsa
Abstract
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 Elsa 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. Discoveries made 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.
Join Elsa in the Hunterian Museum after hours and find out more about her discoveries.
Event title
Long Live Mammals in the Time of Dinosaurs
Publisher
University of Glasgow
Rights statement
In Copyright