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University of Reading Community Festival 2025<\/h1>\n

Tiny Fossils from the Ice Age<\/h2>\n

On Saturday 17th May 2025, University of Reading held its third annual Community Festival at Whiteknights Campus. It was a beautiful sunny day and the event was a massive success with over\u00a08000<\/b> visitors on campus, engaging with the university and local partners.<\/p>\n

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A team from the Partnership funded Unlocking NHM field samples for fossil vertebrates<\/a> project was there to lure visitors into sorting\u00a0micromammal fossils out from NHM field samples – a real hit with the community, especially the under 10s who loved using the microscope and looking at the tiny fossils. Well over 400 people were counted but the team were so busy the clicker couldn’t cope…<\/span><\/p>\n

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The team of\u00a0Juliette Kent (QUEST<\/a> UoR placement student), Neil Adams (NHM Curator, Fossil Mammals)<\/span> and Hester Crothers (QUEST Palaeoecological and Geoarchaeological Technician).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Project team engaging visitors with tiny fossils at the Community Festival at University of Reading May 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16,8,20],"tags":[],"coauthors":[15],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engagement","category-events","category-news","category-science"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTiny Fossils from the Ice Age - University of Reading and Natural History Museum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/uor-nhm-partnership\/tiny-fossils\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tiny Fossils from the Ice Age - 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