LATEST NEWS
- March 2019: Graduate student Beth Carroll successfully defends her MS thesis! Her work analyzes limb bones of the 13 million-year-old notoungulate Hemihegetotherium trilobus.
- March 2019: A small “pop-up” exhibit on our research at Quebrada Honda, Bolivia opens at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. It features a selection of fossils and reconstructions by Velizar Simeonovski from Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys. It runs through the end of the summer.
- October 2018: Our edited volume on paleoecological techniques is published in Springer’s Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology series: “Methods in Paleoecology: Reconstructing Cenozoic Terrestrial Environments and Ecological Communities” by D.A. Croft, D.F. Su, and S.W. Simpson.
- June 2018: “Two new macraucheniids (Mammalia: Litopterna) from the late middle Miocene (Laventan South American Land Mammal Age) of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia” is published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, and a life reconstruction of the two new species (by Velizar Simeonovski) is chosen as the cover art for the June issue of the journal. The lead author is former CWRU undergraduate Andy McGrath, now a PhD candidate at the U. of California, Santa Barbara. Check out the EurekAlert press release here.
- June 2018: “New Paleogene notohippids and leontiniids (Toxodontia; Notoungulata; Mammalia) from the early Oligocene Tinguiririca Fauna of the Andean Main Range, Central Chile” is published in American Museum Novitates by A.R. Wyss, J.J. Flynn, and D.A. Croft.
- April 2018: PhD candidate Angeline Catena successfully defends her dissertation! She starts teaching at Diablo Valley College in California in June.
- January 2018: Our paper on the paleoecology of South American carnivorous marsupials (sparassodonts) is published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Check out my Rafting Monkey blog post for a non-technical discussion of the curious patterns it reveals.
- October 2017: Online version of “Paleosol and ichnofossil evidence for significant Neotropical habitat variation during the late middle Miocene (Serravallian),” which discusses the habitat of Quebrada Honda, is published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology by PhD candidate Angeline Catena, D.I. Hembree, B.Z. Saylor, F. Anaya, and D.A. Croft.
- September 2017: Glowing review of Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys published in Tetrapod Zoology, part of the Scientific American blog network
- July 2017: Darin Croft is promoted to Professor in the Department of Anatomy
- May 2017: Darin Croft is awarded Kaiser-Permanente Excellence in Teaching Award from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Class of 2017
- May 2017: Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys wins a gold medal in the Science category of the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards or “IPPYs”.
- April 2017: Online version of “New remains of Megathericulus patagonicus Ameghino, 1904 (Xenarthra, Tardigrada) from the Serravallian (middle Miocene) of Bolivia; Chronological and biogeographical implications” is published in the Journal of Mammalian Evolution by D. Brandoni, A.A. Carlini, F. Anaya, P. Gans, and D.A. Croft.
You might also be interested in checking out the latest:
- Rafting Monkey blog posts
- Old Bones blog posts by Darin Croft
- Tweets by Darin Croft (@dcpaleo)
- Darin A. Croft Google Scholar Citations
- Darin A. Croft on ResearchGate
- Darin A. Croft on Academia.edu