High five

A Chinese paleontologist was one of the women scientists whose work was recognized at the 20th L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards on March 22.

"My work explores fundamental questions about who we are and where we came from," says Professor Meemann Chang, who in a long career examining fish fossils has discovered some of our earliest ancestors.

"To be able to figure out what a new fossil is, how it is related to other organisms, how it lived, and what it can tell us about the ancient environment" is truly enlightening, she says.