Rudy and Javier from the Invertebrate Paleobiology Lab at Harvard, joined by John Paterson (...

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We are chuffed to announce that The William F. Milton Fund will support our proposal for field-based research on a new early Cambrian fossil site with Burgess Shale-type preservation in northern British Columbia! The Invertebrate Paleobiology Lab at OEB and MCZ will lead an international team to venture into the Canadian wilderness in search of fossilized soft-bodied animals more than 500 million years old. The age and depositional environment of the new site make it... Read more about William F. Milton Fund award for research on new early Cambrian fossil biota

All members of the Invertebrate Paleobiology Lab converged in Riverside, California, for the 11th North American Paleontological Convention organized by Mary Droser and Nigel Hughes from UC Riverside! Our contributions covered the full scope of the lab, including the taphonomy of trilobite limbs preserved in 3D, lobopodian mortichnia-like trace fossils, pancrustacean evolution and phylogeny, the significance of guts in Cambrian euarthropods, and an overview of exceptional biotas from the...

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Javier was recently interviewed by Adam Vassallo for an ambitious project entitled Prof Talks, that aims to feature 100 professors in 100 consecutive days. The conversation is available at the...

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The National Science Foundation just announced that the Collaborative Research Grant entitled "Convergent evolution and diversification of the crab body plan over 200 million years" is officially funded! This research will use an interdisciplinary approach to understand the significance of carcinization (i.e... Read more about Crab body plan evolution supported by NSF