Tag: Paleontology/Geobiology
November 8, 2013
Former Graduate Student Redraws Family Tree of Extinct Crocodile-like Animals
Michelle Stocker (PhD ’13), former graduate student in The University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences, has dramatically rearranged the evolutionary tree for…
Read MoreNovember 1, 2013
The Miracle of Flight
Nobody had any idea just how gigantic a pterosaur could be until the spring of 1971. Douglas A. Lawson, MA ’72, was a 22-year-old graduate…
Read MoreOctober 30, 2013
Professor Jim Sprinkle Retires
Jim Sprinkle, First Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Yager Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, has retired after 42 years of teaching and conducting…
Read MoreSeptember 30, 2013
Special Volume Honors Late Paleontologist Wann Langston Jr.
Colleagues and former students of Wann Langston Jr., an internationally renowned vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Texas at Austin who died in April 2013,…
Read MoreJuly 1, 2013
Researchers Sequence Genome of 700,000-year-old Horse
This Article reprinted from the website Domain-b. The oldest genome so far from a prehistoric creature has been sequenced by an international team, led by scientists…
Read MoreApril 9, 2013
Memorial: Wann Langston, Jr.
It is with deep regret that I write to confirm that Dr. Wann Langston, Jr. passed away late on Sunday, April 7, 2013. He succumbed…
Read MoreNovember 12, 2012
Eavesdropping on the Secret Lives of Fish
Marine scientists are using “earthstones” from Southern flounder to determine the age, growth history and migration patterns of fish. Nate Miller’s geochemical analyses are a…
Read MoreSeptember 19, 2012
CT Scan and 3-D Print Help Scientists Reconstruct an Ancient Mollusk
Using a combination of traditional and innovative model-building techniques, scientists in the U.S. and a specialist in Denmark have created a lifelike reconstruction of an…
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Prehistoric “Movie Monster” Mollusk Re-created With 3-D Printer
A spiky, well-armored mollusk that lived in the ocean 390 million years ago has been brought back to life with the help of 3-D printers….
Read MoreMay 27, 2012
Changes in Developmental Timing Were Crucial in Evolutionary Shift from Dinosaurs to Birds
Researchers from Harvard University, The University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere have found evidence that the evolution of birds is the result of a…
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