Paleontology

Young scholar tracked pre-Jurassic beasts to UChicago

Passion for fossils of mammalian ancestors leads to PhD’s prize-winning research.


Steve Koppes

Fossil flowers prove to be a fertile field

Paleontologist discovers blossoming plant diversity in 100-million-year-old specimens.

Paleontologist adds to fossil record, a notable prize

Rebecca Terry, graduate student in Geophysical Sciences, was awarded the 2007 Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.


Steve Koppes

Zeresenay 'Zeray' Alemseged

Title: Donald N. Pritzker Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy

Expertise: Human evolution, Paleontology

Departmental website: https://pondside.uchicago.edu/oba/faculty/alemseged_z.html

Paul Sereno

Title: Professor in Organismal Biology & Anatomy

Expertise: Dinosaurs, Paleontology, Evolution

Personal website: http://www.paulsereno.org/

Neil Shubin

Title: Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy

Expertise: Evolutionary biology, Organismal biology and anatomy, Paleontology

Departmental website: http://pondside.uchicago.edu/oba/faculty/shubin_n.html