Welcome to the website of the Manchester Palaeontology Society!

Our society was established by several PhD students, all working on areas within Palaeontology, and all members of the Palaeontology Research Group. The PhD students, and our members span faculties all across the University, including Life Science, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Theology, Computer Science.

Our aim is to provide events such as guest/internal speakers giving talks, revsion discussion for students studying palaeontology, and fieldtrips for fossil hunting. All our activities are tailored for a wide range of participants, from the budding amature who enjoys picking up fossils on the beach, all the way to academics in the subject. We have close ties with the Manchester Geological Association, and the Society for Manchester's Environmental and Geology Students.

Our society is also involved in the hosting of Progressive Palaeontology, a conference for post graduates working in palaeontology to present their work. This is a part of the Palaeontological Association.

If you would like to join the Palaeontology Society, please do so online here.

For other information, please email us at mapalaeo-at-manchester.ac.uk (please excuse the crude anti-spam)

Upcoming events:

May 11th -- Talk by Dr Tom Harvey (University of Leicester) entitled "Early life under the microscope: organic-walled microfossils and the Cambrian explosion". All Welcome, talk takes place 4-4:30pm in G03 Williamson Building.

May 13th -- Q&A session for 2nd year Vertebrate palaeontology course. Located in G16 10am.

Recent events:

February 23rd -- Talks by Vivian Allen from The Royal Vetenarian College, and Karl Bates from the University of Manchester on dinosaur biomechanics.

May 29th-31st 2008 -- Society hosted Progressive Palaeontology conference.

March 14th 2008 -- Talk by Jon Antcliffe from Oxford University on "Darwin’s Dilemma: Using modern techniques to answer old questions.", again in the 3D suite. More details will follow nearer the time.

March 7th 2008 -- Imran Rahman (Imperial College); "3-D Reconstruction in Earth and Planetary Science"

March 7th 2008 -- Russell Garwood (Imperial College); "The Investigation of Enigmatic Arthropods: Two 3-D Reconstruction Case-Studies."