Seven departments at Keck School of Medicine USC are in the top 10 nationally in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health, according to the rankings of medical schools released for… Read More »

Adam Huttenlocker, Assistant Professor of Clinical Integrative Anatomical Sciences, was quoted in Science Daily about the significance of a fossil cranium discovery that suggests mammal migration continued during the Early Cretaceous period… Read More »

(Illustration by Terryl Whitlatch) As part of the USC Paleosciences Research Seminar Series, illustrator Terryl Whitlatch took the stage in Zumberge Hall October 17 to shed light on the role animal fossils… Read More »

Chinlestegophis jenkinsi, a tiny subterranean carnivore, is an ancient relative of frogs and salamanders. (Illustration/Jorge Gonzalez) The discovery fills a significant gap in the evolutionary history of frogs, toads and other amphibians…. Read More »

The new species Ramadapis sahnii existed 11 million to 14 million years ago and is a member of the ancient Sivaladapidae primate family. It consumed leaves and was about the size of… Read More »

An anatomy expert looks beyond Hollywood’s depiction of prehistory’s most popular creatures. Accurate or not, the fantastical portrayals of dinosaurs in movies shape our perception of prehistory’s most popular creatures. Think of the… Read More »

Illustration/Wikimedia Commons Biologists seek Zenkerella, a scaly-tailed squirrel that has never been spotted alive by scientists. Researchers are on a real-life search for what one calls “the ultimate Pokémon”: Zenkerella, an elusive… Read More »

Djani Robertson, a first-year medical student at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, was a 2014 Bridging the Gaps participant during his time as an undergraduate student at Rutgers. Attending medical… Read More »