News

We've had quite a turnaround over the summer, now we are delighted to welcome new graduate students Madeleine (Maddi) Waskom (previously at the School of Education in Harvard) and Walker Weyland (previously at UC Riverside), as well as postdoctoral...

We are back home after a fabulous week at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting at Anaheim, California! The IP lab led the organization of the day-long topical session Evolution of Marine Life in the Cambrian , coordinated by Rudy-Lerosey...

We are delighted to share the news that Dr. Karma Nanglu will start his own research group in the West Coast at the prestigious University of California Riverside in Fall 2025! Karma's work on the biodiversity, paleobiology and paleoecology of Cambrian...

Graduate student Marc A. Mapalo is one of the experts featured in a comprehensive and accessible YouTube video focusing on the unique and fascinating biology of tardigrades, also colloquially known as water bears or moss piglets. Marc's graduate...

Dr. Sarah Losso is the latest recipient of the prestigious Winifred Goldring Award granted by the Asociation of Women Geoscientists to outstanding female graduate students pursuing a career in paleontology. Sarah's research focuses on the morphology...

We are back from a week full of science, colleagues and amazing talks at the 12th North American Paleontological Convention ( NAPC 2024) organized by Matt Friedman and colleagues at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor! The IP lab had a great...

Students and teaching staff alike had a blast during the Spring fieldtrip to Utah as part of the course OEB/EPS 56 The History and Evolution of Life on Earth. Highlights included checking out modern oolites in the Great Salt Lake, exceptionally...

We are back from another successful campaign of fieldwork in the Marjum Formation of Utah as part of our ongoing efforts to study the most diverse, abundant and well preserved Cambrian Burgess Shale-type deposits from the United States! In addition to our...

We are excited to feature the lab's latest publications coming out a day apart from each other! First, graduate student Jared C. Richards led the first broad scale quantitive comparison between the conventional fossil biota preserved in the Early...

How did trilobites curl up into a protective ball? The great diversity of trilobite fossils has answered this question thanks to their durable biomineralized dorsal exoskeleton, but what happens underneath has been a mystery for over a hundred years...