Online talk: Where are all the Scottish mammoths?

Join Dr Ross Barnett for an online talk titled "where are all the Scottish mammoths?"! Our southern neighbours seem to have an abundance of Cenozoic fossil riches, with world-famous sites like Kents cavern, Creswell Crags, Boxgrove, Swanscombe, West Runton, and Kirkdale, bursting with the bones of mammoths, rhinos, bears, hyaenas, and lions. We may regard this bounty with envious eyes but it prompts the question: where are our fossils? Speaker Bio: Dr Ross Barnett is a palaeontologist with a PhD in Zoology from the University of Oxford. He specialises in seeking, analysing and interpreting ancient DNA, but his area of expertise is the genetics and phylogeny of cats, especially the extinct sabretooths. Barnett's research has led to many remarkable findings in recent years and has involved investigating escaped lynx in Edwardian Devon, rubbishing claims that the yeti is an ice-age polar bear and seeking the ancestral home of the enigmatic Orkney vole. In 2018, he received the Palaeontological Association's Gertrude Elles Award for Public Engagement. Ross currently lives in the Highlands of Scotland with his wife and two daughters. Links from Ross’ PowerPoint: Podcast on Prehistory in Film, Screens of the Stone Age - https://pasc-scpa.ca/sotsa Blog devoted to ice-age animals - www.twilightbeasts.org "1 in 6 surveyed species at risk of extinction 4th SON (State of Nature) Report 2023 - https://stateofnature.org.uk/