Evolution of Dinosaur Skin and Feathers: A Complex Story
Today, Paul Barrett from the Natural History Museum, Nicolas Campione, a lab alumnus and researcher at Uppsala University, and I published a detailed study of the evolution of dinosaurian integument....
View ArticleCongrats to Dr. Kirstin Brink!
Kirstin Brink successfully defended her Ph.D. in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto this past Monday. Here thesis is entitled “Phylogenetics and Dental...
View ArticleIntroducing Wendiceratops
Life reconstruction of Wendiceratops pinhornesis by Danielle Dufault Today, Michael Ryan and I published a paper describing a new species of horned dinosaur, Wendiceratops pinhornesis. It is one of the...
View ArticleTeeth of Small, Feathered Dinosaurs Tell a Story of Extinction and Survival
Today, my research group published a new paper in the journal Current Biology addressing one of the biggest mysteries of the end Cretaceous mass extinction event- why the did the ancestors of living...
View ArticleIntroducing Zuul crurivastator- destroyer of shins, wellspring of science
This week, lab postdoc Victoria Arbour and I unveiled a new species of armored dinosaur, Zuul crurivastator, based on an almost complete and remarkably well-preserved skeleton from the Judith River...
View ArticleCurrie’s Alberta Hunter
Today, my research group published a paper identifying and naming a new species of troodontid dinosaur in honour of Dr. Philip J. Currie. Albertavenator curriei, meaning “Currie’s Alberta hunter”,...
View ArticleWe Have a Logo!
Lab palaeo-artist extraordinare Danielle Dufault has recently made us an amazing logo. It’s basically a coat-of-arms for the ROM/University of Toronto vertebrate palaeontology research group, with our...
View ArticleSabre-toothed Smilodon Comes to Canada!
Today we officially welcome the iconic ‘sabre-toothed tiger’ Smilodon fatalis to Canada. New research led by lab Ph.D. candidate Ashley Reynolds shows that the fearsome sabre-toothed predator, Smilodon...
View ArticleFamily life of sibling sabre-toothed cats
On January 7, we published a new and intriguing study in iScience¸ which documents a family group of the sabre-toothed cats whose remains were discovered in present-day Ecuador. By studying the...
View ArticleIntraspecific Combat in Zuul and the Evolution of Tail Clubs in Armored...
Today we revealed Zuul put back together for the first time, and what its completely preserved armor and skin tell us about the behavior of armoured dinosaurs, and the evolution of tail clubs in...
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