December
2008
Paul Barrett provided comments for a BBC news article
regarding an exciting dinosaur site in Shangdong Province, China.
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December
2008
An article about Beelzebufo was declared to be the 2nd
most read article about fossil finds covered by National
Geographic News in 2008.
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December
2008
Ian Corfe
vists the lab to look at fossil material in our collections.
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December
2008
A book
chapter by Susan Evans about "The skull of lizards and tuatara" was published as
part of the series Biology
of the Reptilia.
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November
2008
Ryoko Matsumoto visited collections at IVPP, Beijing, (China) hosted by
Yuan Wang.
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November
2008
Ryoko Matsumoto, Susan Evans and colleagues based in Japan and
Mogolia published a descriptuon of the enigmatic fossil reptile
Khurendukhosaurus in the scientific journal Naturwissenschaften.
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November
2008
Marc Jones presented a talk about his research to the Institute
of Animal Technology.
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November
2008
Jérémy Anquetin led a multiple author paper in Proceedings of the
Royal Society B along with Paul Barrett, Susan Evans and M Marc Jones that
described a Middle Jurassic Turtle from Skye, Scotland (UK) found on a field
trip led by Susan Evans and funded by National Geographic. The Skye field team
comprised Paul M Barrett, Richard J Butler, Susan E Evans, Rob Felix, Dave Herd,
Jason Hilton, Emrys Jones, Marc E H Jones and Jolyon C Parish. Further details are
available in the UCL news
article. This work attracted notable
media coverage including a BBC Science/Nature
feature.
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October
2008
Marc Jones attended the 68th Society of
Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) annual meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, USA and
presented five contributions including a first author platform presentation, a
joint author poster with Dr Neil Curtis (University of Hull) and a poster by
Susan E Evans and Ryoko Matsumoto.
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October
2008
Susan Evans contrubuted to a paper in Journal
of Anatomy led by Mehran Moazen (University of Hull) about a combined finite
element analysis (FEA) and multibody dynamics analysis (MDA) of skull
biomechanics during biting in a skull of Uromastyx
hardwickii.
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September
2008
We are very pleased to announce that Jérémy Anquetin obtained a
job at the Université de Rouen in the
Department of Géologie.
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September
2008
Marc Jones took part in the Big
Draw at UCL with Helen
Chatterjee and specimens from the Grant Museum of Zoology,
UCL.
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September
2008
Ryoko Matsumoto visited collections at the Royal Tyrrell Museum (Drumheller,
Canada) (shown right) and Science Museum
Minnesota (USA) supported by the University of London Central Research Fund. Her hosts were Don
Henderson, Don
Brinkman and Bruce
Erickson.
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September
2008
Susan Evans and Marc Jones contributed to a paper also authored
by Mehran Moazen, Neil Curtis, Paul O'Higgins,
and Mike Fagan published
in Proceedings
of the Royal Society B. This work examined the function of sutures in a
computer model of Uromastyx analysed using Finite Element
Analysis.
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September
2008
Susan Evans attended the 56th Symposium of
Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy (SVPCA), in Dublin where
she gave a talk on fossil lizard material from China.
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August
2008
Marc Jones presented a talk and joint author poster at the 14th
International Symposium on Dental Morphology at the Ernst Moritz Arndt
University of Griefswald, Germany.
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August
2008
Yssy Dunstan, works on a summer project in the lab for two
weeks.
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August
2008
Jack
Conrad from the American Museum of Natural History visits the lab to examine lepidosaur
specimens.
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August
2008
Four groups of students visit the lab from the London International Youth Science
Forum.
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August
2008
Susan Evans contributed to a multi-author paper in Cretaceous
Research about the taphonomy and palaeoecology of the Las Hoyas vertebrate
fauna (Cuenca, Spain).
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August
2008
The Evans Lab and Yamamoto
Lab held their first joint lab meeting. Robin Whatley was also visiting for
the day.
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July 2008
Sin-ichi Fujiwara spent time in the Evans lab.
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July 2008
Susan Evans attended a meeting in Cuenca, Spain, of participants
involved with the Las Hoyas Project (Early Cretaceous vertebrate fauna of
central Spain).
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June
2008
The lab was visited by Jin You Mo (Natural History Museum of
Guangxi). Photo taken by Przemek Mayewski.
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June
2008
In conjunction with Paul Upchurch (UCL) and
Dr Yuan Wang (IVPP) several members of the lab presented a joint author poster
about the Early Cretaceous of China (Jehol biota) at the UCL China conference.
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May 2008
Marc Jones published a paper on skull shape ontogeny in Sphenodon and the evolution of skull shape in Rhynchocephalia in the Journal
of Morphology. This paper is based on some of Marc's PhD work and represents one of the first studies to use Geometric
Morphometrics to analyse skull shape in reptiles.
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May
2008
Work on a herbivorous fossil lizard from Japan by Susan
Evans,
in collaboration with Makoto
Manabe (National Science Museum, Tokyo), was published in Palaeontology.
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May
2008
Whilst camping in west Wales (UK) Marc Jones spotted a wild
male adder (Vipera berus). The information has be forwarded on to http://www.adder.org.uk/.
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May
2008
Paul Barrett provided comments for a BBC news article
regarding newly discovered dinosaur footprints in Yemen.
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May
2008
Paul Barrett presented a talk at Dinosaurs
a historical perspective.
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May
2008
Marc Jones presented a talk at the 12th Pal
Herp meeting in Berlin about his PhD research whilst at the Berlin Museum of
Natural History (Museum für Naturkunde) of the Humbold-University visiting
collections on a Synthesys grant. He
was hosted by Johannes
Muller.
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April-June
2008
Marc Jones, Ryoko Matsumoto and Jérémy Anquetin all visit
collections at the Museum am
Löwentor, Stuttgart hosted by Rainer
Schoch.
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April
2008
Marc Jones presented a talk at the Modern Approaches to
Functional Morphology Workshop (run by the CEE) which took place at the
Natural History Museum. Photo taken by Manabu Sakamoto.
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April
2008
Susan Evans and Paul Barrett attended a Jurassic workshop at
the Smithsonian Museum,
Washington.
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March
2008
Marc Jones is asked for a quote by New
Scientist regarding exciting
new work on the tuatara published by colleagues from New Zealand.
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March
2008
Susan Evans presented a talk for UCL Lunch Hour Lectures about
her work on the anatomy and evolution of frogs.
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February
2008
In conjunction with David W. Krause
(Stony Brook), Susan Evans and Marc Jones have published a paper in PNAS on a giant
fossil ceratophryne frog from Madagascar. Such a find has interesting
biogeographic implications as ceratophrynes are otherwise only known from South
America. This work attracted substantial media coverage from all over the
world. This included National
Geographic and a BBC Science/Nature
article that was the most viewed BBC news page globally for 6
hours. Restoration by Luci
Betti-Nash (Stony Brook)
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February 2008
Paul Barret published
a joint author in the Palaeontographical Society
Monographs Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis, a theropod dinosaur from
the Jurassic of England (UK).
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February
2008
We are very pleased to announce that David I. Whiteside has
become an honorary member of the Evans Lab. David completed his PhD at Bristol
in 1983 and made significant contributions to the field around that time. He
subsequently took a break from palaeontology to raise a family and pursue a
successful career in education. However, David is now eager to continue where he
left off and has already recently published a paper in Geol
Mag based on work carried out in conjunction with John
E. A. Marshal (University of Southampton).
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February
2008
After a successful collaboration with Torsten M. Scheyer (University
of Bonn), Jérémy Anquetin has had a paper published in Lethaia
on the histology of fossil turtle bone from Kirtlington in Oxford,
UK.
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January
2008
Susan Evans attended the 50th Annual meeting of the Geological
Studies Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, and presented a joint author paper
(co-authored by Marc Jones) on lepidosaur evolution.
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