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Felix nominated for Guardian Student Media Awards

Newspaper on the shortlist for student publication of the year

Felix nominated for Guardian Student Media Awards

Felix has been shortlisted for Student Publication of the Year in the Guardian Student Media Awards 2011. The other finalists in this category are Cherwell (University of Oxford), Mouth (Kingston University), River (Kingston University) and York Vision (University of York). In addition, 2 of the 5 nominations for Digital Journalist of the Year are Felix contributors: Dylan Lowe and Jake Lea-Wilson. The winners will be announced at the Awards ceremony in November.

Last year’s Felix Editor-in-Chief Kadhim Shubber expressed his delight following the announcement: “I’m really happy that we’ve been nominated. Felix has been nominated four times in the past six years, so I think we’ve got something to be proud of. I want to say thank you to everyone who contributed last year; this nomination is a recognition of their tireless efforts.

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Of kleptons and kerplunk (Tales of the Unsung Wilderness)

Environment

Of kleptons and kerplunk (Tales of the Unsung Wilderness)

If you were a fish in Permian Brazil, Prionosuchus was your most formidable foe. This gargantuan, vaguely crocodilian creature belonging to a group known as temnospondyls is thought to have ruled the waters of its time.[1] These impressive animals are no longer with us, but their successors (direct or

By Shreyas Kuchibhotla