Congratulations to Lauren Thompson and the Beard Lab team! At the 157th Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science in Wichita, KS, Lauren took first place for Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation! Lauren showcased additional microfossils she had recovered from sediment collected from the White River Formation of northeastern Colorado. This sediment has been partContinue reading “Lauren Thompson Wins Best Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science”
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Kat Rust and Colleagues Shed Light on North America’s Last (Non-human) Primate
A team of paleontologists, led by the Beard Lab’s PhD student, Kat Rust, published an article in the December 2023 volume of the Journal of Human Evolution describing new material from the enigmatic primate genus, Ekgmowechashala. Meaning “little cat man” in Sioux, Ekgmowechashala was perhaps the last primate to inhabit North America until the arrivalContinue reading “Kat Rust and Colleagues Shed Light on North America’s Last (Non-human) Primate”
Beard Lab Students Find Success at 2023 Conferences
Beard Lab graduate and undergraduate students had a busy conference season in 2023. Kat Rust, Kristen Miller, Parker Rhinehart, and Kevin Mulcahy all attended the 83rd annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Cincinnati. Kristen presented a Colbert Prize poster about new Paleocene metatherians from Big Bend National Park and Kat talked aboutContinue reading “Beard Lab Students Find Success at 2023 Conferences”
Arctic Monkeys?? Kristen Miller and Colleagues Describe Primate Relatives from the High Arctic
If you were searching for the relatives of primates, where would you look? Chances are, the Canadian High Arctic wouldn’t be your first guess, but we now know that primate relatives made it there at least once! In their January 2023 PLOS ONE article, Kristen Miller, Chris Beard, and Kristen Tietjen describe two new speciesContinue reading “Arctic Monkeys?? Kristen Miller and Colleagues Describe Primate Relatives from the High Arctic”
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