May 2026: PI Croft is one of the invited plenary presenters at the XXXIX Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados in San Miguel de Tucumán, speaking about “Paleoambientes y comunidades ecológicas miocénicas de los Andes Centrales de Chile y Bolivia” May 2026: Russell Engelman successfully defends his PhD dissertation: “Dietary habits, evolution, and guild structure […]
In 2019, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History exhibited a small “pop-up” exhibit highlighting our NSF-sponsored research on Miocene mammals from Quebrada Honda, Bolivia. You can view the video from the exhibit below.
Want to learn more about the fossil history of South American mammals? Check out my blog, The Rafting Monkey. My posts discuss the latest research on South American mammals and fossil mammal sites as well as interesting tidbits from the archives of paleomammalogy. You can visit periodically to see what is new or sign up to get an email alert every […]
Do you know what a notoungulate is? How about an astrapothere, a necrolestid, or a sparassodont? These are just a few of the fascinating mammals that once called South America home. Unfortunately, these and many other ancient South American mammals left no living descendants and have no close living relatives. As a result, they are […]
One of the primary goals of field research is to document new species occurrences: a species new to science or remains of a species where they haven’t been found before. Most people think that naming a new species is the ultimate paleontological prize. Although finding and naming new species is an exciting and important part […]