#  Stephanie E. Pierce Lab 

 



Fossils reveal the complex evolutionary history of the mammalian regionalized spine (see Jones et al. 2018)



 

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       ![Thrinaxodon copyright April Neander](/sites/g/files/omnuum5771/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/spierce/files/flesh_reconstruction_backbone_puzzle_copyright_april_neander.jpg?itok=f6X6pfk9) 

 

 



 

 



 

##  Lab News 

 



  [### Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research

 ](/news/star-friedman-challenge-promising-scientific-research) April 26, 2024 

 The Star-Friedman Challenge provides seed funding for novel research in the physical or social sciences, with an emphasis on new directions that might not otherwise be supported through traditional funding channels. Stephanie Pierce, Professor of... 

 

 

   [### 265-million-year-old fossil reveals oldest, largest predator in South America, long before the rise of dinosaurs

 ](/news/265-million-year-old-fossil-reveals-oldest-largest-predator-south-america-long-rise) September 12, 2023 

 In a new study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, an international team of researchers including Stephanie Pierce and Felipe Pinheiro, UNIPAMPA, reveal the astounding discovery of a 265-million-year-old, exquisitely preserved... 

 

 

   [### Global warming spawned the age of reptiles

 ](/news/harvard-researchers-find-rapid-evolution-reptiles-was-triggered-nearly-60-million-years) August 19, 2022 

 In a new study in Sciences Advances researchers in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University and collaborators reveal the rapid evolution and radiation of reptiles began much earlier... 

 

 

   [### Stephanie Pierce featured in HMSC Connects! Podcast

 ](/news/stephanie-pierce-featured-hmsc-connects-podcast) March 09, 2022 

 Stephanie Pierce was featured in a MSC Connects! Podcast from the Harvard Museum of Science and Culture. Listen to " From Gymnastics to Paleontology: A Conversation with Stephanie Pierce," hosted by Jennie Burgland. 

 

 

  

 

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