by Claire Terhune | Aug 30, 2018 | Events, News
One of the best parts about being a biological anthropologist is having the opportunity to travel to natural history museums all over the world and to see the collections that rarely, if ever, go on display to the public. Sometimes these hidden collections are pretty...
by Ashly Romero | Aug 24, 2018 | News, Peculiar Primates
A new school year is starting in the US, so we’re hoping this month’s peculiar primate will help you get ready and excited to learn. As requested, this month’s post is about the pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea). This little one is the smallest monkey in the world,...
by Ashly Romero | Jul 25, 2018 | News, Peculiar Primates
This month’s primate certainly turns heads in the rainforests of South America. Let’s just say this species isn’t winning any beauty contests, not by our human standards, anyway. When looking at this primate, we find ourselves remembering a really bad sunburn. Think...
by Ashly Romero | Jun 11, 2018 | News, Peculiar Primates
Hello everyone, and welcome to the first post of Peculiar Primates! Our research at the University of Arkansas incorporates a lot of different primates, so we want to clue you in to some of the cool, weird, and awesome species that we study. Of course, we’ll cover the...
by Claire Terhune | May 15, 2018 | News
Exciting things have been happening in the Terhune Lab so far this year! In fact, we’re a bit behind the curve here since so many things have been going on that we’ve decided to give you one big update. In January, both Ashly Romero and Caitlin Yoakum were named...
by Lydia Haake | Sep 7, 2017 | Dermestid Daily, News
The most recent specimen cleaned in the Terhune lab’s dermestid colony was an adult North American River Otter or Lontra canadensis that was killed by a local dog and donated to the Terhune lab. While the otter’s cranium was broken and stored in formalin...
