Time Scavengers

Evolutionary escalation in an exceptionally preserved Cambrian biota from the Grand Canyon (Arizona, USA) By: Giovanni Mussini, James W. Hagadorn, Anne E. Miller, Karl E. Karlstrom, Rhydian Evans, Carol M. Dehler, Salvador Bastien, and Nicholas J. Butterfield  Summarized by: Kayla Adeyemi… Continue reading →

Cretaceous bird from Brazil informs the evolution of the avian skull and brain by: Luis M. Chiappel, Guillermo Navalón, Agustín G. Martinelli, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Rodrigo Miloni Santucci, Yun-Hsin Wu1 & Daniel J. Field Summarized by Jordyn Dutcher. Jordyn… Continue reading →

Refigium amidst ruins: Unearthing the lost flora that escaped the end-Permian mass extinction by: Huiping Peng, Wan Yang, Mingli Wan, Jun Liu, and Feng Liu Summarized by: Jenna Allen, an environmental science and biology undergraduate student at Binghamton University. Currently,… Continue reading →

Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity By: Rhys Taylor Lemoine, Robert Buitenwerf, Sören Faurby, and Jens-Christian Svenning Summarized by: Hailey Faurot is a senior Environmental Science Ecosystems major at… Continue reading →

Morphological evolution and functional consequences of giantism in tyrannosauroid dinosaurs By: Andre J. Rowe, Emily J. Rayfield Summarized by: This article was summarized by Gillian Rohde, who is a senior biology major at Binghamton University. She is on a pre-physician… Continue reading →

Parallel Evolution of Unusual ‘Harpiform’ Morphologies in Distantly Related Trilobites By: James D. Beech, David J. Bottjer, Nathan D. Smith Summarized by Erich Reineking: Erich lives in Binghamton, New York, but is from Oakdale, New York on Long Island. He… Continue reading →

For a while, crocodile: crocodylomorph resilience to mass extinctions by: Keegan M. Melstrom, Kenneth D. Angielczyk, Kathleen A. Ritterbush, and Randall B. Irmis Summarized by: Emily Rosenberger, a 3rd year undergraduate student studying geology at Binghamton University. In her free… Continue reading →

Reconstructing Miocene bird mating behavior from a fossil track site By: Nasrollah Abbassi  Summarized by: Elizabeth Kolosovskiy is a senior at Binghamton University, majoring in biology and minoring in forensic health. She plans to graduate in December and take a… Continue reading →

A multi-method approach to deciphering the paleobiology of a mosasaur from South Africa by: Megan R. Woolley, Michael W. Caldwell, Kevin Rey, Romain Amiot & Anusuya Chinsamy Summarized by: Eli Steingardt is a Philosophy, Politics, and Law major at Binghamton… Continue reading →

Forelimb feathering, soft tissues, and skeleton of the flying dromaeosaurid Microraptor By: Maxime Grosmougin, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G. Kaye, Matthieu Chotard, Luke A. Barlow, T. Alexander Deccechi, Michael B. Habib, Juned Zariwala, Scott A. Hartman, Xing Xu, and… Continue reading →