Video Feature: Discovering a new side of fossils with CT scanning
We are excited to announce that our lab was recently featured in a new video by UChicago's Biological Sciences Division Press. The video, titled "Discovering a new side of fossils with CT scanning," provides a behind-the-scenes look at how micro-CT can reveal...
Evolution of inner ear neuroanatomy of bats and implications for echolocation
Read our New paper Evolution of inner ear neuroanatomy of bats and implications for echolocation Here! Citation:Sulser, R.B., Patterson, B.D., Urban, D.J. et al. Evolution of inner ear neuroanatomy of bats and implications for echolocation. Nature (2022)....
New Jurassic mammaliaform sheds light on early evolution of mammal-like hyoid bones
Zhou, C.-F. Bhullar, B.-A. S., Neander, A. I., Martin, T. and Z.-X, Luo. 2019. New Jurassic mammaliaform sheds light on early evolution of mammal-like hyoid bones. Science. 365: 276-279. (doi: 10:1126/science.aau9345) Abstract We report a new Jurassic docodontan...
Late-surviving stem mammal links the lowermost Cretaceous of North America and Gondwana
Huttenlocker, A. K., Grossnickle, D. M., Kirkland, J. I., Schultz, J. A., and Z.-X. Luo. 2018. Late-surviving stem mammal links the lowermost Cretaceous of North America and Gondwana. Nature. 558:109-112 (doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0126-y) Utah fossil reveals...
Maiopatagium and Vilevolodon
New gliding mammaliaforms from the Jurassic Meng, Q.-J., Grossnickle, D. M., Liu, D., Zhang, Y.-G., Neander, A. I., Ji, Q., and Z.-X. Luo. 2017. New gliding mammaliaforms from the Jurassic. Nature 548: 291-296. (doi:10.1038/nature23476). New evidence for...
A Cretaceous eutriconodont and integument evolution in early mammals
Martin, T., Marugán-Lobón, J., Vullo, R., Martín-Abad, H., Luo, Z.X., Buscalioni, A.D. (2015). A Cretaceous eutriconodont and integument evolution of early mammals. Nature, in press. Link to article 125-million-year-old mammal fossil revealing the early evolution of...
Agilodocodon and Docofossor: arboreal and fossorial Docodonts
Luo, Z. X., Meng, Q.M., Ji, Q., Zhang, Y.G., Neander, A.I. (2015). Evolutionary development in basal mammaliaforms as revealed by a docodontan Science, 347(6223), 760-764. DOI: 10.1126/science.1260880 Meng, Q.M., Ji, Q., Zhang, Y.G., Liu, D., Grossnickle, D.M., Luo,...
Earliest Evolution of Multituberculate Mammals Revealed by a New Jurassic Fossil
Yuan, C. X., Ji, Q., Meng, Q. J., Tabrum, A. R., & Luo, Z. X. (2013). Earliest evolution of multituberculate mammals revealed by a new Jurassic fossil. Science, 341(6147), 779-783. DOI: 10.1126/science.1237970 A new Jurassic fossil from China provides fresh...