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Sedgwick Club group photograph taken in Tan-y-bwlch, Wales, 1891

Hot baths extra – a glimpse into the making of Earth sciences

20 Apr 2012

A display of material from the Sedgwick Museum records archive, on view to the public from tomorrow, offers a rare glimpse into the daily lives of...

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Limb of a terrestrial tetrapod recovered from a Scottish riverbed by Stanley Wood in 2005

From fins to limbs

11 Apr 2012

Tonight Cambridge vertebrate palaeontologist Professor Jenny Clack is the subject of BBC Four’s Beautiful Minds series. The programme looks at her...

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Egg Cetera #2

Egg Cetera #2: The answer to the riddle of which came first

06 Apr 2012

In the second report of our Egg Cetera series on egg-related research, let’s begin with the age-old question: which came first, the chicken or the...

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