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Maddi Waskom submits senior thesis

November 4, 2022

Congratulations to undergraduate researcher Madeleine (Maddi) Waskom, who earlier this month submitted her senior thesis entitled "Stuck in the mud: experimental taphonomy and computed tomography demonstrate the critical role of sediment in carcass stabilization during early fossilization", co-supervised by graduate student Sarah Losso and Javier Ortega-Hernández....

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Dean's Competitive Fund Spring 2022 awarded to study exceptional fossils in a nearshore setting

May 2, 2022
Today we received the exciting news that the Dean's Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship will support our ongoing project entitled "Revealing the Nearshore Cradle of Animal Evolution: A New Exceptionally Preserved Soft-Bodied Fossil Biota From the Lower Cambrian of British Columbia, Canada". After a successful field season in August 2019, we continue investigating the... Read more about Dean's Competitive Fund Spring 2022 awarded to study exceptional fossils in a nearshore setting
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Human Frontier Science Program Early Career Grant to study the water to land transition in euarthropods

March 17, 2022

This week we received the fantastic news that the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) will support an international effort to understand the water to land transition in euarthropods, with emphasis on the evolution of respiratory systems! This highly collaborative research will be funded through the...

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IP lab on the cover of the MCZ Annual report 2020-2021

December 17, 2021
The Museum of Comparative Zoology Annual Report for 2020-2021 is now freely available online HERE, and we are honoured that one of the new species described by the lab is featured in the cover! We first came across Thelxiope holmani during the field excursion to the mid-Cambrian Wheeler Formation as part of NAPC 2019 in Riverside, and have since published an... Read more about IP lab on the cover of the MCZ Annual report 2020-2021
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Fezouata starfish featured in PBS Eons

August 24, 2021

Check out the latest installment of PBS Eons addressing the evolution of the earliest echinoderms, more specifically how starfish got their arms! We are particularly excited as the cover artwork, as well as a good chunk of the video, features our recent work on the early Ordovician somasteroid (stem-group asterozoan) Cantabrigiaster fezouataensis, from the Fezouata biota in Morocco. You can check out the original publication in Biology Letters describing this...

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Fossil nervous systems galore

August 18, 2021

The past month has seen the publication of two exciting studies focusing on the preservation and evolutionary significance of fossilized central nervous systems. First, a collaboration with Dr. Russell Bicknell (University of New England) and colleagues, on the discovery of an exceptionally preserved brain in the extinct horseshoe crab Euproops danae from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek deposit in Illinois. The study published in ...

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