RGGS at AMNH

New from AMNH RGGS Postdoc Leland Graber and colleague: Insect–microbiome interactions in a changing world sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to CUNY EEB-AMNH RGGS PhD Student Kate Montana (again!) on her Explorers Club of NYC grant!

Congratulations to RGGS Gerstner Scholar alum Brendan Reid on his new faculty appointment as Chargé de Cours/Assistant Professor at Université de Namur, Belgium!

Congratulations to CUNY EEB-AMNH RGGS PhD Student Kate Montana on receiving two grant awards through CUNY: the Black and Schwartz Science Conference Travel Award to attend the 2026 Evolution conference and a Doctoral Student Research Grant to collect dragonflies in Australia!

#TrilobiteTuesday: New paper from RGGS CB PhD alum Ernesto Vargas-Para's dissertation and RGGS Prof Melanie Hopkins: Modular reorganization of the trilobite Lonchodomas chaziensis demonstrates mosaic patterns of phenotypic change underlie metamorphosis academic.oup.com/evolut/article…

We are thrilled to announce the champions of our second annual RGGS Valentine's Bake Off! 🥇 First Place: Olivia Sullivan's Chewy Fudge Brookies! 🥈 Second Place: Alice Wang's Chiikawa (vanilla bean cookies, with dinosaurs)!

New partial skeleton of Homo habilis from the upper Burgi Member, Koobi Fora Formation, Ileret, Kenya - Grine - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

New commentary on Homo habilis by RGGS Professor Emeritus Ian Tattersall: An identity for the inscrutable Homo habilis - Tattersall - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar…

From their REU project, RGGS CB PhD student and REU alum Owen Goodchild, REU alum Sydney Rosen, PD alum Jeremy Tissier, Prof. Jin Meng and colleagues: Petrosals of extinct horses peerj.com/articles/20484/ via @PeerJLife

New from CUNY-AMNH PhD student Matthew Garb, RGGS Prof Emeritus, and colleagues in Nature’s Scientific Reports: Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark Scientific Reports doi: doi.org/10.1038/s41598… nature.com/articles/s4159…

New from RGGS CB PhD alum Allison Bronson, RGGS Profs Emeriti Neil Landman & John Maisey, and colleagues: Vertebrate assemblage and depositional environment of the Fayetteville Shale (Upper Mississippian, middle Chesterian). doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.geob… sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

From RGGS Gerstner Scholar alum Edson Abreu, RGGS-CUNY PhD alum Silvia Pavan and colleagues: Recent, Intricate Speciation in Amazonia Uncovered by a Multilayered Genomic Analysis of Tree Squirrels academic.oup.com/sysbio/article…

Mini pig cuteness🚨: we found fossils of a mini pig (Cainochoerus) in the southern Kenyan Rift, near Narok, the first reporting of Cainochoerus at the site (Lemudong’o). Link to the article @JVP_vertpaleo : doi.org/10.1080/027246…

From RGGS Postdoc alum Deming Yang, Adjunct Prof. Ashley Hammond, and colleagues: The first occurrence of Cainochoerus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Suidae) from the Late Miocene Lemudong’o Formation, Kenya tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

National Geographic online article mentioning RGGS Comparative Biology PhD student Lohit Garikipati: Newly discovered mantis species dances like a snake to avoid death after sex nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

Congratulations to RGGS Professor Emeritus Neil Landman on his election as a Fellow of the Paleontological Society! paleosoc.org/index.php?opti…

Nature News and Views article featuring the paper: T. rex debate settled: contested fossils are smaller rival species, not juveniles nature.com/articles/d4158…

Publication by RGGS Comp Bio alum James Napoli and colleague resolving a longstanding controversy showing Nanotyrannus is distinct from T. rex, not a juvenile rex: Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus coexisted at the close of the Cretaceous nature.com/articles/s4158…

Story on new Nature publication by RGGS Comp Bio PhD alum Anna Ragni and collaborators: A puzzling, 3.4-million-year-old fossil foot belonged to a contemporary of the famed Lucy | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Nature publication by RGGS Comp Bio PhD alum Anna Ragni and collaborators shows that previously unidentified foot bones belong to the ancient human relative Australopithecus deyiremeda, a contemporary of “Lucy” (Au. afarensis) nature.com/articles/s4158…