The Burjassot campus of the UV postpones the documentary about Dorothea Bate, one of the most important palaeontologists in history
- University Culture Service
- April 29th, 2025

In the framework of the Culture programme to UV campuses, the Charles Darwin Hall from Burjassot-Paterna Campus had scheduled for Tuesday, 29 April (4:45pm), the projection of the documentary ‘Dorothea y lo Myotragus’, a tape about Dorothea Bate, one of the most important palaeontologists in history. The activity, which is organised by the Faculty of Biological Sciences and UV Cinema Club, has been postponed due to the national blackout on 28 April. The new date will be announced soon.
After the projection, there will be a talk with Marta Hierro and Nuria Abad, directors of the documentary; Mar Ferrer, vice-dean UV Quality and Innovation; Arianna Renau, from the department of Botany and Geology of the UV and Ana Rosa Gómez, from Transmitting Science. This activity intends to promote an interest in research among women and provide role models for female students.
The documentary goes back to 1909, when a young Englishwoman gets on board to Majorca tracking down a few mysterious bones. For two years, she climbs, scales and explores every cavity in the rocks of Majorca, Ibiza and Minorca and tells her experiences in her diaries. The first of them disappears, but the rest are preserved and tell with detail the experience. The tape recreates the written diaries in the Balearic Islands by Dorothea Bate, one of the most important palaeontologists of all time, a woman who fought against the gender stereotypes of her time and the discoverer of mysterious extinct animal species in the Mediterranean, among them, the legendary Myotragus Balearicus.
Moreover, in it there are combinations of current images with snippets of interviews with contemporary researchers, with shots of materials discovered by Dorothea and scenes of the Natural History Museum in London, alongside with animated sequences that illustrate moments in the life of Dorothea.
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