UCC scientists discover new way to reconstruct what extinct animals looked like

UCC palaeontologists have discovered a new way to reconstruct the anatomy of ancient vertebrate animals bu analysing the chemistry of fossilized melanosomes from internal organs.

The study was published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America journal and was led by UCC's Valentina Rossi and her supervisor Dr Maria McNamara in collaboration with an international team of chemists from the US and Japan.