by Stephanie Sang | Nov 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Members of the Coates Lab traveled to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to present at the Great Lakes Student Paleoconference which hosted students from 7 institutions. Talks ranged from topics including reconstructing ecological communities, applying geometric...
by Stephanie Sang | Nov 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
We had a successful and fun trip to SVP in Brisbane this year! Ben Otoo presented a poster, “New Diversity in Early Tetrapod Hind Limbs” and Mike enraptured audiences with his talk, “Rethinking the Assembly of Chimaeroid Fishes.” Rumor has it...
by Stephanie Sang | Nov 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
Our lab was featured in a UChicago news article about CEB50, a celebration of the first fifty years of the Committee on Evolutionary Biology. Mike is the current chair of CEB and was photographed absolutely glowingly (mostly due to the light table), basking among the...
by Stephanie Sang | Nov 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Here, we report the first skeletal remains of Phoebodus from the Famennian (Late Devonian) of the Maïder region of Morocco, revealing an anguilliform body, specialized braincase, hyoid arch, elongate jaws and rostrum, complementing its characteristic dentition and...
by Stephanie Sang | Nov 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
After an extended gestation, Tristychius -the jaws paper-, is finally out, published in Science Advances: ‘High-performance suction feeding in an early elasmobranch’. The work highlights collaboration with Aaron Olsen (Brown University) and his...
