Hans Larsson was recently featured in an article on creating a ‘chickenasaurus’ on Wired.com. The full article can be found here.
September 18, 2011
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Hans and Felipe (former visiting PhD student) will be giving presentations on fossil crocodyliformes at the IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontologia de Vertebrados in Argentina this week. For abstracts and more info, visit the conference website.
September 13, 2011
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Hello! The Larsson Lab site is currently under renovation! Please check back soon!
August 15, 2009
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Recently Hans Larsson gave a great description of an average year on the Vertebrate Palaeontology Field course for the McGill Reporter. If you are a university student, not just at McGill, you too can spend 2.5 weeks digging up dinosaurs in the badlands of Saskatchewan and Alberta and get course credit for it to boot.… [Read more…]
July 1, 2009
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Alex Dececchi and Matthew Vavrek recently returned from a trip to the Peel River in northeastern Yukon Territory, where they joined Dr. David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum in search of dinosaur fossils. This was the second year to the region, and while the trip last year yielded a Paleocene plant fossil site, this… [Read more…]
May 5, 2009
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The Frenchman Formation Terrestrial Ecosystems Conference is coming up soon in Eastend, Saskatchewan. The conference, obviously on research relating to terrestrial ecosystems of the Frenchman, is going to be held at the T. rex Discovery Center in Eastend, home of Scotty the T. rex. A number of our lab members will be presenting talks at… [Read more…]
April 22, 2009
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Recently Hans Larsson published a paper in Paleobiology entitled “Patristic evolutionary rates suggest a punctuated pattern in forelimb evolution before and after the origin of birds“. The paper discusses how the evolution of the bird wing has progressed in a step-wise fashion, and that the origin of birds actually shows few morphological changes going on.… [Read more…]
April 18, 2009
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We have started planning for this year’s vertebrate palaeontology field course in southern Saskatchewan. We’re planning on splitting our time between Eastend and Grasslands National Park. For the full details and dates on what’s going on, check out the handout (vp-field-course-guide-2009) for everything.
September 27, 2011
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