Lab of Dr. Larisa DeSantis. Focused on Dietary Reconstructions and Ecological Assessments of Mammals. Dept of Bio. Sci. and EES, Vanderbilt University.
Nashville, TN
Joined November 2013
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We are celebrating Darwin Day a little early with our @EvolutionVU @VanderbiltU Darwin Day speaker @NeilShubin TODAY at 3:30pm. Can't wait!
Congrats Kayla on being Awarded one of the Excellence in Research Poster Awards for Biological Sciences @VanderbiltU (news.vanderbilt.edu/2022/09/…)
Happy #FossilFriday! All things @PredsNHL on @ThisIsNashville on @WPLN today (4/1) at noon! Hockey and ancient predators of Nashville's Past! Thanks @ThisIsNashville for visiting @VanderbiltU this week to talk about sabertooth cats! #SmilodonSelfie
Hi, I'm Dr. Larisa DeSantis and I'm a paleontologist at @VanderbiltU and @EvolutionVU. Learn more about how we dig up and study fossils on #NationalFossilDay via youtu.be/_7tm33s2u6Q. I also share my all time favorite fossil! Hint: it has more than two giant canines!!!
Jumping into the deep end with our first research trip since March of 2020. An amazing team with several undergrads from @DeSantisLab at @VanderbiltU are headed to Museum of the North in Fairbanks, Alaska!
Homotherium was an open-habitat tough-flesh eater - that ate baby mammoths! Check out the work of @MAntonPaleoart, Ernie Lundelius, @bobferanec and @DeSantisLab in @CurrentBiology published today: cell.com/current-biology/ful… (see the video as well: youtube.com/watch?v=MpWBMAoV…)
Grazers aren't specialist grazers, but grazing adapted! Synthesis of 7 million years in North America! Check out the work of @DrPardi published today (royalsocietypublishing.org/d…) during her postdoc at #Vanderbilt @DeSantisLab @EvolutionVU Open access!
Happy #FossilFriday! Unfortunately, the fate of polar bears doesn't look good. Check out what @AnsleyPetherick and @DeSantisLab revealed from modern and archaeological bears from the medieval warm period: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… see the video abstract: youtube.com/watch?v=tqSAnh1M…)
Happy Darwin Day! If you missed Dr. Sean Carroll's talk (@SeanBiolCarroll), you can view it here (youtube.com/watch?v=EhjszdrU…). Celebrate the fortunate events that led to life and you!
Dr. Carroll is Vice President for Science Education at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (@HHMINEWS) and Balo-Simon Professor at the @UofMaryland. You can read more about his accomplishments in this Vanderbilt press release
news.vanderbilt.edu/2021/02/…