Beyond the Bones: The “Tail” of an Ancient Beast
NYITCOM Associate Professor Simone Hoffmann, Ph.D., is part of a team “unearthing” significant clues about an extinct, ancient mammal.
Beyond the Bones: Brainy Birds
Assistant Professor Aki Watanabe, Ph.D., published the first study from his NSF CAREER grant-funded research project; he proposes using a domesticated chicken to study how birds—and perhaps animals in general—ended up with differently shaped brains.
Beyond the Bones: Sizing Up Thunder Beasts
Research co-authored by Associate Professor Matthew Mihlbachler, Ph.D., explores the fossil record of an ancient relative of the rhino to help explain why natural selection might favor larger animals more often than smaller animals.
Beyond the Bones: (Climbing) Birds of a Feather
Anatomy research demonstrates how birds use their tails to climb.
Polly Want to Climb?
NYITCOM researchers find that parrots, which cannot grasp surfaces with their wings, climb by using their head as a third “limb.”
Study: Early Killer Whales Ate Fish—Not Other Marine Mammals
A new study co-authored by NYITCOM’s Jonathan Geisler, Ph.D., provides vital clues on when killer whales began feeding on other marine mammals.
Science for All
New York Tech professors get creative while sharing their expertise, drawing on seemingly unrelated topics to reach their students and the general public.
Study: Chimps Outstep Humans
New research by NYITCOM’s Nathan Thompson, Ph.D., suggests that human strides are considerably shorter than that of our nearest cousins, chimpanzees.
Rethinking Human Origins
The College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Nathan Thompson, Ph.D., is co-author to a new report in the journal Science, which aims to explain ape and human evolution, including how scientists can get closer to discovering our last common ancestor.
Improving the Understanding of Cranial Birth Defects
New research by Assistant Professor of Anatomy Akinobu Watanabe, Ph.D., will examine how the brain and skull have interacted over millions of years as well as in the days and weeks before birth to understand their evolution and development.
Uncovering How Ancient Animals Walked on Land
New research led by Assistant Professor Julia Molnar, Ph.D., explains how early tetrapods went from paddling in water to walking on land.
Changing the Perception of T. rex
Assistant Professor of Anatomy at NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine Akinobu “Aki” Watanabe, Ph.D., was one of more than 15 paleontologists who helped to launch an encyclopedia of dinosaurs.