Field Notes from Romania
Check out our recent feature in the University of Arkansas Research Frontier's Field Notes, and a blurb in their blog! http://researchfrontiers.uark.edu/2016/u-of-a-anthropologist-catalogs-fossil-remains-from-significant-european-site/...
Patricia’s adventures
Terhune Lab member Patricia Ramos is wasting no time taking advantage of her summer break! First she was off to Tanzania for a study abroad experience where she visited chimpanzees at Gombe, made friends with the Hadza hunter-gatherers, went on safari in the...
So many fossils, so little time
Fossils were in no short supply during our recent research trip to the "Emil Racovita" Institute of Speleology in Bucharest, Romania. Our goal this season was to work on continuing to inventory the existing Olteţ River Valley paleontological collections. Excavations...
Way to go Sarah!
Congrats to Terhune Lab member Sarah Cumpston on her poster presentation in the 2016 American Association of Physical Anthropologists Undergraduate Research Symposium. Well done!! Check out her poster here.
AAPAs here we come!
The Terhune Lab is busy preparing for the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting next week in Atlanta!
Roadkill Revitalized
Our latest specimen receiving a dermestid beetle cleaning is a large male Virginia opossum or Didelphis virginiana. It is commonly known as the North American opossum since it is the only marsupial found in United States! Unfortunately, our male was hit by a car but...
Python Timelapse
The following video is a timelapse of the lab’s dermestid colony cleaning a large Green Tree Python, Morelia viridis, and smaller Ball Python, Python regius over the course of two weeks. Morelia viridis originates from both Southeast Asia and Oceanic rainforests. It...
Snakes… why’d it have to be snakes?
We had a packed house in the Terhune Lab yesterday for dissection and preparation of two snakes (one green tree python and one ball python, both donated to the lab after natural deaths) for our beetle colony. Dissecting the snakes with UArk biology faculty and grad...
Happy Holidays from the Terhune Lab!
The Terhune biological anthropology lab at the University of Arkansas wishes you happy holidays. We hope you enjoyed your holiday meals as much as our dermestid beetles enjoyed their turkey dinner!
First Dermestid-Cleaned Specimen
The first specimen cleaned by the lab's dermestid beetles was a common house mouse (Mus musculus). The skinning process was started while the specimen was still partially frozen (this allowed for the skin to be more easily removed and the decomposition smell to be...