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  • Pierce Lab 2022

    Pierce Lab 2022!

    Back: Rob, Mark, Tiago, Scott, Peter. Front: Stephanie, Eva, Meg, Catie, Amandine, Christina

  • Thrinaxodon copyright April Neander

    Fossils reveal the complex evolutionary history of the mammalian regionalized spine (see Jones et al. 2018)

  • Flesh reconstruction of the stem tetrapod Ichthyostega with 3D skeleton visible beneath (see Pierce et al. 2012)

  • Brocklehurst et al. 2022

    Utilizing musculoskeletal modeling to unravel the sprawling-upright postural transition in mammals (Brocklehurst et al. 2022)

  • Stephanie preparing a fire salamander to walk through the x-ray fluoroscope gantlet

  • Petrified Forest Arizona class fossil dig - part of OEB 126 Vertebrate Evolution

  • In vitro experimental determination of muscle physiological properties (collaborator J.R. Hutchinson)

  • Morphological and biomechanical disparity of Mesozoic crocodylomorphs (see Stubbs et al. 2013)

  • 3D reconstruction of the axial skeleton in the stem tetrapod Ichthyostega (see Pierce et al. 2013)

Lab News

Tetrapods in Nature!

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Fossil fish named after Jenny Clack

Sunday, November 1, 2020

National Fossil Day 2020!

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Dr. Zachary Morris!

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Reptile evolutionary dynamics

Friday, July 3, 2020
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