Welcome to the Palaeo@Leeds research group, Karolina Zarzyczny. Karolina is an undergraduate in the School of Zoology at the University of Leeds and has just started an 8-week Palaeontological Association Undergraduate Research Bursary-funded internship in the Palaeo@Leeds group. Karolina will be working with Dr Cris Little, Jed Atkinson, Autumn Pugh and myself reconstructing trophic networks (i.e. … More Welcome Karolina Zarzyczny

Out today in print! My PhD student Fiona Walker from the Palaeobiology Research Group at University of Bristol has published on “Assessing sampling of the fossil record in a geographically and constrained dataset: the Chalk Group of Hampshire, southern UK” in Journal of the Geological Society. It’s Open Access, so you can all download a copy … More New paper by Fiona Walker

Survival of the smallest?  – Trends in brachiopod size across the Late Triassic mass extinction Overview Over the summer of 2016, I co-supervised a Palaeontological Association-funded summer intern, Fiona Pye, along with Chris Hughes, Zoe Hughes, and Prof. Richard Twitchett (all of the Natural History Museum (NHM), London). Fiona was tasked with attempting to detect any … More Survival of the smallest?

Biodiversity in the extreme world of Pangea Come and do a PhD in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds with me! The proposed project focuses on investigating the effects the extreme climate of Pangea may have had on the distribution of biodiversity through the Late Palaeozoic to Early Mesozoic. See … More Come and do a PhD with me in Leeds!

Published today in Journal of Biogeography Our (myself, Jordan Bestwick, Holly Narey, and Dr James Sciberras) special paper entitled Dinosaur biogeographical structure and Mesozoic continental fragmentation: a network-based approach was published in print this week in Journal of Biogeography volume 43, Issue 9, pages 1691-1704. Published as a special paper… You can access the paper … More Dino networks out in print

Death and Destruction in prehistoric worlds If you’re a science teacher in Yorkshire – u should book me via @PastEarth to give a talk on mass extinctions https://t.co/19ZQHhp4Ou — Alex Dunhill (@AlexDunhill) August 5, 2016 I’ll be taking bookings to come to secondary schools and talk about mass extinctions throughout the 2016/17 academic year. Science teachers … More Schools outreach 2016/17

The Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting 2016 program has been released today! See the full program here on the GSA website. Session T136: Across Space and through Time: Understanding Evolution and Ecology using Biogeography, co-convened by Dr. Erin Saupe and myself, will run for the full day on Sunday 25 September 2016, beginning … More #GSA2016 program out now

There are less than two weeks to go before the abstract deadline for GSA 2016. Deadline: 12 July 11:59 PDT We are accepting abstracts for talks and posters You can submit your abstract here. Contact myself <a.dunhill@leeds.ac.uk> or Erin Saupe <erin.saupe@yale.edu> for submission queries.

Last week I spent 4 days working in the Palaeontology Department at the Natural History Museum in London with Fiona Pye. Fiona is a second year undergraduate in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds and was awarded a Palaeontological Association Student Bursary to work on a summer research project called “Survival of the Smallest”. The project … More A week at the NHM

Our new paper, “Dinosaur biogeographical structure and Mesozoic continental fragmentation: a network-based approach” published in Journal of Biogeography on Monday 25th April has been receiving quite a lot of media attention (see below): The dinosaurs fled Europe after the super continent broke up, new research finds https://t.co/gGdGpD6dAn — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) April 25, 2016 But, if you’re … More T-Rexit? Well, not exactly…