December 19, 2011
Among the 51 new members to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in December 2011 is Dr. Zhonghe Zhou, who earned his doctorate in 1999 at the University of Kansas.
Zhou is the Director of Institute...
September 7, 2011
A new discovery by researchers from the University of Kansas and China pushes back by millions of years proof that birds’ digestive systems have ancient origins. The investigators found fossil...
December 14, 2010
A KU Vertebrate Paleontology research specimen made it into the top science discoveries of 2010 published in Discover Magazine.
November 1, 2010
Desui Miao, collection manager in vertebrate paleontology at the Biodiversity Institute, was one of five authors of a response to research findings published in the journal Science. The response...
September 20, 2010
The Palm Beach Post recently featured the work of KU vertebrate palentology alumnus Robert DePalma, who has headed a team of scientists who discovered the insects embedded in Cretaceous amber in...
July 23, 2010
The Biodiversity Institute has a new home on the web and a new site for the institute's Natural History Museum.
Prominent on the institute's new web site, biodiversity.ku.edu, are the research,...
February 20, 2010
A research team that included Larry Martin, curator of vertebrate paleontology, recently published their findings about Bonnerichthys gladius, a giant fish about 100 million years old that could...
December 22, 2009
KU Biodiversity Institute scientists and their collaborator in China have found clues that suggest that a 125-million-year-old dinosaur from China was venomous.
Sinornithosaurus (pronounced sign-...
December 22, 2009
KU Biodiversity Institute scientists and their collaborator in China have found clues that suggest that a 125-million-year-old dinosaur from China was venomous.
