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We are pleased to announce that a very nice review of our title: So you want to be a palaeontologist? Practical advice for fossil enthusiasts of all ages by David Penney has just been published in the latest edition of Deposits Magazine. (Deposits Magazine 2016, snippets): In these times, when the classic discipline of palaeontology is diminishing, there is a demanding need to inspire the next generation of palaeontologists - and perhaps also to make this field of scientific research more approachable. ... this recent volume on the world of palaeontologists, by the widely acclaimed researcher and palaeontologist, Dr David...

If you are interested in the story of how bugs and slugs crawled out of the slime to look for more slime and make more bugs and slugs ... then check out this great video by Kenneth (Chris) Gass, author of our title Solving the Mystery of the First Animals on Land: The Fossils of Blackberry Hill.     The video presentation is based on his recent book (click the cover below to go to the product page where you can see more information about this title or order a copy) ReviewsNewsletter of the Palaeontological Association (2016, number 91, pages...

We are very pleased to announce the best presentation winners at the recent International Conference of Arachnology 2016, held in Colorado, USA, each of whom received a copy of our volume: Spider Research in the 21st Century - trends and perspectives.The were as follows:MORPHOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY & SILK SUB GROUP (21 COMPETITORS)Oral presentation: 1st prize: LENKA SENTENSKA Title: Are males really so insensitive? Palp morphology of a spider Philodromus cespitum reveals innervationSYSTEMATICS, EVOLUTION, AND BIOGEOGRAPHY SUB GROUP (36 COMPETITORS)Poster presentation:1st prize: SASHA BISHOP Title: Biogeography of two Caribbean ochyroceratid genera: Theotima and Ochyrocera2nd prize: LAURA MARCELA SEGURA-HERNANDEZ Title: Expanding far from...

Recently we have visited two different schools as part of our outreach work. The first was St. Edwards, Rochdale, where we presented a range of different fossils and explained how they were formed and what they can tell us. We took lots of really cool stuff and the kids really enjoyed it, particularly as their own teaching collection consisted of just six very small specimens of common species. The second visit was to Linden Road Academy as part of National Insect Week. We answered questions from the children that had arisen over the course of their week-long entomological forays. Of...

We would like to congratulate Lukáš Laibl of the Czech Republic for winning one of our book tokens as first prize for best poster at the recent Progressive Palaeontology 2016 Conference held in Oxford. Morphological variability of Sao hirsuta (Trilobita, Cambrian) and the case for neutral evolutionLukas Laibl1*, Jorge Esteve2 and Oldrich Fatka3 1National Museum Prague, Department of Palaeontology, Václavské námrstí 68, 115 79 Prague 1, Czech Republic; 2Complutense University of Madrid, Avda. de Séneca 2, Ciudad Universitaria, 280 40 Madrid, Spain; 3Charles University, Faculty of Science, Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Albertov 6, 128 43, Prague 2, Czech Republic....