The mystery of leaf size solved by global team of scientists
A global team of researchers, including SMU paleobotanist Bonnie F. Jacobs, have cracked the mystery of leaf size.
LiveScience: Newfound dino looks like creepy love child of a turkey and ostrich
A new giant bird-like dinosaur discovered in China has been named for SMU paleontologist Louis L. Jacobs, Corythoraptor jacobsi, by the scientists who identified the new oviraptorid.
Dallas Innovates: SMU Researchers Find West Virginia Geothermal Spots
The state of West Virginia has been home to coal-driven energy for nearly two centuries. Now SMU has discovered it's home to a vast source of geothermal energy.
Nat’l Geographic: One of Earth’s most dangerous supervolcanoes is rumbling
Vulcanologist James E. Quick, SMU’s associate vice president for research and dean of Graduate Studies is quoted for his expertise in the magazine National Geographic.
The making of Maori society: An archaeological analysis of social networks
SMU archaeologist Mark D. McCoy has been awarded a grant to collaborate with other researchers on how New Zealand's Māori society developed.
LiveScience: Tough Turtle — Dino-Killing Asteroid Spared Sea Creature
SMU paleontologist Timothy Scott Myers analyzed an ancient sea turtle whose ancestors may have survived an asteroid strike, the world's largest mass extinction event.
Radio New Zealand: New research sheds more light on ancient Pacific site
Radio New Zealand covered the research discovery of SMU archaeologist Mark D. McCoy. The new uranium series dating on the stone buildings of the ancient monumental city of Nan Madol suggests the ancient coral reef capital in the Pacific Ocean was the earliest among the islands to be ruled by a single chief, McCoy found.
D Magazine: The Trinity Project — More About Bones
Answers to these questions can be supplied in part because there’s a fossil record, thanks to the efforts of Winkler, Slaughter, and Ellis W. Shuler, the person for whom the museum is named. Journalist Laray Polk wrote about the Shuler Museum of Paleontology at SMU in the Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences as [...]
Daily Mail: The first king — 1200 AD tomb reveals ancient city invented new kind of society
They used an X-ray gun ... and dates were calculated based on the characteristics of the radioactive isotope thorium-230 and its radioactive parent uranium-234. Science journalist Cheyenne MacDonald covered the research discovery of SMU archaeologist Mark D. McCoy. New dating on the stone buildings of the ancient monumental city of Nan Madol suggests the ancient [...]