Primates are smart, flexible, and adaptive creatures. How have they responded to changes in climate over millions of years? Climate is the major factor that determines where a species can and ...

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and giant marine reptiles were conspicuously absent from the face of the Earth. Rodent-size ...

Early contributors to the collection include John Clark (1936-1938), Robert W. Wilson (1938-1946), and Harold Koerner (1946-1971), who helped expand the collection of Cenozoic mammals. Clark’s primary ...

Fossil skull of the extinct cynodont therapsid Cynognathus crateronotus. Cynognathus was a powerful predator that was close to being a mammal, but not quite. It has been found in several parts of ...

It is the last period in the Mesozoic Era. It comes after the Jurassic Period and before the Paleogene - the first period of the Cenozoic Era, our current era. It lasted a long time, nearly 80 million ...

The Wang Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Lab focuses on using stable isotopes to understand the biogeochemical cycles (with a focus on N, but also including C, O, and S) in the modern and past oceans, ...