New Antarctic research form our very own personnel, Edie Taylor and Rudy Serbet as well as our awesome affiliates!

Its a really exciting time for KU Paleobotany. Join us!!

Plz R/T! Do you like Cretaceous plants, evolution, AND Antarctica? Well friends, UMich Paleobotany and I are searching for grad students to join our labs via our Antarctic grant! Fieldwork is included. Contact us if you're interested!

Dr Carla Harper will be giving a talk on the Forests of Antarctica this Friday 9th at 2.00pm as part of School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin Ecol and Evol Seminar Series. iCRAG Centre @TCDGeolMuseum. DM me for the link if you would like to attend online.

Woohoo! A (forthcoming) special issue honoring our curator emerita, Edie Taylor!

Welcome to the collections #FossilFriday

Brian Atkinson, KU Ecology & Evolutionary Biology & curator of #Paleobotany at the KU Biodiversity Institute, is 1 of 7 mentors lending insights to tomorrow's The Paleontological Society event! #GSA2020 KU Paleobotany

Gorgeous view with gorgeous fossils. Check out this awesome work by one of our research affiliates, Anne-Laure!

Happy #AntarcticaDay2020 🇦🇶 heres some (complementary) Permian (~255 million years old) fossil trees from the Transantarctic mountains. 2 of them still have roots attached!

Today's #FossilFriday is this #Clubmoss fossil from our popular living 🌿PaleoGarden exhibit. Explore our brand new virtual version of the PaleoGarden & learn more about the evolutionary history of plant life! ➡️ tinyurl.com/PaleoGarden #carboniferous

An $850,000 U.S. National Science Foundation grant will support KU BI/NHM curator Brian Atkinson’s work in #Antarctica, studying how modern plants evolved & provide unique opportunities for KU student researchers. #paleobotany #fossils Habitual B ➡️news.ku.edu/2020/12/02/pal…

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#FossilFriday : Valentines Edition 💗💗💗Mitrospermum compressum 💗💗💗 Permineralized seed of the long extinct cordaites. Known for their heart shaped seeds

Cordaites actually contains the Latin word “cor”, heart <3

Sharing a new paper just out in #AJB on my work with UMich Paleobotany on the evolutionary relationships of fossil palms doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1… tldr: we CT scanned over 200 palm fruits to find that modern palm tribes were having a blast in the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene🌴

Check out this awesome research from our very own curator, Kelly Matsunaga !

Way to go Keana! 🎇🌠

Big congratulations to Keana Tang, KU Ecology & Evolutionary Biology student in KU Paleobotany, who was awarded an U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Student Program Fellowship! 🎉 📸 Keana with an insect, from last summer's Insta takeover! KUGradStudies

It was a surprise to get a call from @CeydaKRendon early this morning telling me GRFP results were out and it was most definitely a pleasant surprise to see I got the GRFP!!!! I especially want to thank Habitual B and Kelly Matsunaga for all of their help and support ♥️🌻

From our very own curator, Dr. Matsunaga! 🌲🎄🌲