LATEST NEWS

  • COMING THIS FALL: PI Croft will host a CWRU Alumni Association trip to Patagonia in late October and early November. Check out the details here.
  • 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.
  • June 2024: Our study of a well-preserved juvenile litoptern cranium from northwest Argentina is published in American Museum Novitates. It is open access, so you can download it here.
  • May 2024: PI Croft presents the invited talk “Avances en el conocimiento de los mamíferos neógenos del Altiplano boliviano y sus paleoambientes” at the XXXVIII Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados in Corrientes, Argentina.

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