ICC wins bid to host historic science conference

Birmingham has won the bid to host an annual international science conference.

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's 85th Annual Meeting will bring together 1,200 scientists, students, artists, writers and scholars from across the world at the ICC in the city centre in November.

Palaeontologists from University of Birmingham will act as the local hosts.

The conference will be made up of symposiums, technical sessions, presentations, exhibitions and films on the history and evolution of vertebrate animals and the discovery, conversation and protection of vertebrate fossils and fossil sites.

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