@RGGSatAMNH

Innovative Ph.D. Program in Comparative Biology- the first Ph.D. degree-granting program for any museum in the western hemisphere

 New York, New York
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Joined July 2009
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Applications are now being accepted for the Comparative Biology Ph.D. program, Graduate Student Ph.D. Fellowship program, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program, and the Annette Kade Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Exchange Fellowship programs Details: amnh.org/research/richard-gi…

Fellowships | Richard Gilder Graduate School

Fellowships for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers across disciplines.

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Congratulations to this year’s graduates of the Richard Gilder Graduate School! This week, the Museum held its 2026 commencement under the iconic Blue Whale in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, celebrating 6 PhD graduates and 16 MAT ESRP graduates. instagram.com/p/Dd4UXeinCkc/…

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NYTimes article featuring AMNH postdoc alum John Burns and colleagues: In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life: nytimes.com/2026/09/26/scien…

In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life

A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.

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From RGGS/Columbia PhD graduate fellow Nic Baird, Prof John Flynn, and colleagues, on the environmental and ecological context of the earliest mammal fauna dominated by high-crowned (hypsodont) herbivores known globally link.springer.com/article/10…

Environmental and ecological context for hypsodonty in the early Oligocene Tinguiririca Fauna,...

Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments - The early Oligocene Tinguiririca Fauna from the Abanico Formation, central Chile, is the earliest mammal fauna dominated by high-crowned (hypsodont)...

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Let's go Yankees! Great night with the RGGS students, postdocs, Dean, and staff!
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1st Years with the RGGS Dean!
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2026 RGGS Comp Bio and Partner Program First Year PhD Students at our annual baseball game outing- this year at Yankee stadium! Welcome Emma, Niko, Amelia, Siyuan (Columbia DEES), and Ruan!
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From AAAS: eurekalert.org/news-releases…: How an ‘explosion of excrement’ changed Earth's ecosystems forever

How an ‘explosion of excrement’ changed Earth's ecosystems forever

An international study led by Flinders University has found a fertile area of inspiration to explain an important step in evolution – and it’s a whole lot of poop. The new study describes the ‘faecal...

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RGGS-AMNH MAT postdoc alum Russell Bicknell and colleague’s new publication in Trends in Ecology & Evolution: The Cambrian fecal revolution: Fueling the Cambrian Radiation sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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RGGS-AMNH MAT postdoc alum Russell Bicknell and colleague’s new publication in Trends in Ecology & Evolution: The Cambrian fecal revolution: Fueling the Cambrian Radiation sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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New from RGGS Adjunct Professor Ashley Hammond and colleagues: Strange 'hobbit' species walked more like us than like 'Lucy,' hip bones reveal livescience.com/archaeology/…

Strange 'hobbit' species walked more like us than like 'Lucy,' hip bones reveal

Anthropologists studying the hip bones of Homo floresiensis have discovered that its pelvis was human-like, raising new questions about the origin of the enigmatic species.

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Congratulations to as RGGS Assistant Professor and Gerstner Scholar postdoc alum Angelo Soto-Centeno, Maxwell/Hanrahan 2026 Awardee in Field Biology! Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation: Angelo Soto-Centeno maxwell-hanrahan.org/award/a…

Angelo Soto-Centeno - Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation

Angelo Soto-Centeno’s field biology helps us understand how global changes — including natural and anthropogenic changes in temperature and habitats — affect

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Congratulations to Columbia DEES/AMNH-RGGS PhD alum Julia Tejada (Caltech) on her NSF CAREER award "Evolution of Diets and Landscapes in Tropical Ecosystems"!
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New from RGGS CB PhD Violet Onsongo, PD alums M. Kohli & L. Newton, CUNY GF alum A. Goodman, & Professors Ware, Prendini & Raxworthy, & colleagues: Evolution and biogeography of the widespread dragonfly genus Orthetrum: Massive dispersal in the tertiary- resjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

Evolution and biogeography of the widespread dragonfly genus Orthetrum (Odonata: Anisoptera:...

Ancestral range reconstruction supports an early widespread Afro–Eurasian distribution, rather than a single-region origin, reflecting connectivity among Africa, Europe and Asia during the Tertiary...

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Publication in Nature from RGGS PhD alums A. Giallombardo and E. Hoffman, Postdoc alum P. Velazco, Prof M. Novacek and colleagues on implications of a new Mongolian fossil- a Cretaceous eutherian stem taxon to Placentalia nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Cretaceous zhelestid mammals are zalambdalestoids

Nature - New Mongolian fossil evidence shows zhelestids were not placental-like herbivore relatives, but a dental variant within Zalambdalestoidea, with distinctive molars alongside zalambdalestid...

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Congratulations to Dr. Brianna Mims on a successful Ph.D. dissertation defense (#58, 7/28/2026)!
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How many @guinnessworldrecords titles can one fish hold? Anglerfish hold multiple world records despite looking out of this world. @terrestrialspodcast visited the @AMNH Department of Ichthyology, featuring RGGS Comp Bio student Emily Carr. instagram.com/reel/DbGZH11R7…
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AMNH Postdoc alum Camille Grohe, RGGS Prof John Flynn, and colleagues on "The origin and evolution of amphibious hearing in pinnipeds” in Proceedings of the Royal Society B (open access): royalsocietypublishing.org/r…

The origin and evolution of amphibious hearing in pinnipeds

Abstract. Pinnipeds (true seals, eared seals and walruses) are the only mammals that can hear effectively in both air and water. How and when they achieved

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Happy World Snake Day! 🐍 We’re heading into the Museum’s Department of Herpetology (including RGGS Comp Bio students Brianna Mims and Daniela Garcia) to learn some interesting facts about these diverse and important reptiles. instagram.com/reel/Da2-XWfqC…

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RGGS Professor Denton Ebel and colleagues in Science Advances on a new meteorite fall and brines in a primitive CM asteroid: Meteor over New York City: Brines in a primitive CM asteroid | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…

Meteor over New York City: Brines in a primitive CM asteroid

A sonic boom that shook New York City announced the fall of a meteorite that preserved the briny subsurface of an alien world.

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New from RGGS Assistant Professor Scott Evans and colleagues: Earliest evidence of behavioural handedness in the Ediacaran motile bilaterian Spriggina floundersi nature.com/articles/s41598-0…

Earliest evidence of behavioural handedness in the Ediacaran motile bilaterian Spriggina floundersi

Scientific Reports - Earliest evidence of behavioural handedness in the Ediacaran motile bilaterian Spriggina floundersi

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