Ramiro[1] lives in the Colombian highlands.

Two Rice University graduate students are among the inaugural recipients of the Quad Fellowship, a multinational scholarship program formed to bui

Rice Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Seiichi Matsuda has been named the recipient

As someone who studies fossil fish coming along on a mostly dinosaur and croc expedition, I tried often to temper my expectations as to how much fish material we would be able to find.

I’ve spent the last three weeks at a site on the Irahzer plain, part of the Irahzer group geological formation that expands to the south and west of Agadez and is dated to the middle Jurassic.

I’m writing this post on the fly as we only have had one day back in Agadez to unpack from the first leg of the expedition and repack everything for the next three weeks.

The past week has been spent in Agadez, a culturally rich historic city that has served as a key component of trans-Saharan trade routes for over 500 years.

Over the past two years, I’ve been working to describe two incredible, ancient (~100 million year old) freshwater fish fossils collected from the southern expanses of the Sahara Desert in Niger.