USC Dornsife paleobiologist David Bottjer and PhD student Alison Cribb, along with an international team of researchers, find ancient clues on the seafloor that show how life bounced back after 90% of species died off.
USC Dornsife paleontology PhD student Hank Woolley is digging into our warmer past to help us understand how we might survive climate change. [5 min read]
A sea urchin fossil found by a USC team had been buried in a rock formation that dates back nearly 270 million years — 10 million years earlier than previous specimens.
USC Dornsife expert in paleontology and paleogenomics finds tiny sponge fossil that predates the Cambrian explosion, calling into question a long-standing evolutionary theory.
Feathered fossil find in China builds the case for flying dinosaurs. The foot-long tail feathers of Changyuraptor are by far the longest of any feathered dinosaur. [2¼ min read]
At between 4.10 and 5.95 million years old, the oldest big cat fossil is found in Tibet in a study led by Jack Tseng, a Ph.D. student at USC Dornsife at the time of the discovery.
A new geology study recently published online in Geology led by Sarah Feakins, assistant professor of earth sciences in USC Dornsife, raises questions about the environment in which our ancestors took shape and developed bipedalism.
USC Dornsife geologists contribute to a recent study that examines the rock record to find evidence that mass extinction events may have been caused by ocean acidification.
