LATEST NEWS

  • 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 of extinct non-carnivoran predatory mammals (NCPMs) of South America (Sparassodonta) and Africa (Hyaenodonta and Ptolemaiida)”. Congratulations Russell!!!
  • April 2026: PI Croft is nominated for a John S. Diekhoff award for graduate teaching and mentoring at CWRU.
  • April 2026: Our collaborative study comparing dental topography in primates and marsupials is published in the Journal of Mammalian Evolution.
  • January 2026: Our study on the diets of pachyrukhine notoungulates from northwest Argentina is published in PPP and is subsequently featured in the Journal Club blog of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • November 2025: Case Daily publishes a story about CWRU’s new Anatomy labs. You can read it here.
  • November 2025: PI Croft’s chapter on the Great American Biotic Interchange is published in Springer’s Handbook of Mammals of Middle and South America.
  • September 2025: Our paper on astrapothere remains from Quebrada Honda, Bolivia is published in Acta Paleontologica Polonica and selected as an Editors’ Choice article for that issue.
  • September 2025: PI Croft gives a talk in CWRU’s Biology Department’s seminar series on his team’s research in the Middle Miocene of Bolivia.
  • August 2025: PI Croft, Beverly Saylor (Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Dept. at CWRU), and EEPS PhD student Evan Madill travel to Bolivia for two weeks of fieldwork
  • May 2025: Published in the Journal of Mammalian Evolution with colleagues from Argentina: a detailed analysis of litoptern hindlimbs
  • March 2025: Rob Evenden successfully defends his MS thesis on Middle Miocene bird fossils from Quebrada Honda, Bolivia. Congratulations, Rob!
  • March 2025: PI Croft is a keynote speaker for the 5th Palaeontological Virtual Conference: “Middle Miocene mammals and paleoenvironments from the Central Andes of Bolivia.”
  • November 2024: PI Croft presents “Lost worlds of South America” at the monthly meeting of the North Coast Fossil Club
  • November 2024: Our paper synthesizing the paleoenvironment and fauna of Quebrada Honda is published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
  • October/November 2024: Members of our lab present a talk and several posters at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting in Minneapolis. Topics include terror birds from Bolivia, astrapotheres from Bolivia, evolutionary relationships of South American native ungulates, and enamel microwear in notoungulates from northwest Argentina. Check out our abstracts here.
  • September 2024: PI Croft is named an Outstanding Research Mentor for medical students by CWRU’s School of Medicine.
  • September 2024: PI Croft presents “Mamíferos y otros animales del Mioceno temprano y medio de Bolivia y del norte de Chile” for the Grupo de Investigación en Paleobiología e Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota. The recording is available here.
  • August 2024: Our study of sloth remains from the Early Miocene site of Pampa Castillo in southern Chile is published in Ameghiniana. It was lead by former CWRU undergrad Nathanael Lee.
  • July 2024: PI Croft receives secondary faculty appointment in CWRU’s department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences.

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