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The Dawson family and McGill have a long and storied connection. Sir John William Dawson, founder of the Museum in 1882 and Principal of McGill for 38 years died in 1899. His great grandaughter Kathleen Godfrey, graduated in 2019 with Masters in Anthropology. You can read about her conservation and social justice work . On August 10, 2020,听Kathleen's grandmother, Joan Harrington, died at the age听of 101.

New research using the most comprehensive study of feathered dinosaurs and early birds has revised the evolutionary relationships of dinosaurs at the origin of birds.

Hauffiopteryx altera (Latin for different from) has been identified as a new species of Ichthyosaurs by researchers from 香蕉视频 and the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart in Germany.

Ichthyosaurs (鈥榝ish lizards鈥�), a group of tuna-shaped reptiles that inhabited Earth鈥檚 seas during the Mesozoic Era, were discovered by scientists in the early 19^th century. Similar to the modern-day dolphin, ichthyosaurs underwent profound adaptions to aquatic environments including limbs transformed into flippers, a dorsal fin, and a tail fin.

According to Virginie Millien, an assistant professor at McGill and curator of zoology and paleontology at McGill's Redpath Museum, warmer temperatures preferentially benefit one of the Lyme diesease tick's most important hosts, the white-footed mouse, which has expanded its range northwards, and outcompeted other mice. The result is that Lyme disease has become a far more pressing health issue in southeastern Canada than ever before.

The McGill 24 Seeds of Change project to create a Virtual Fossil and Dinosaur kit closed听at midnight on May 26, 2020, and raised $2,069.78 from 9 donations (including $290 in McGill24 Matching Funds).

While smaller dinosaurs needed speed, huge predators like T. rex were optimized for energy-efficient walking, according to a published in PLOS ONE.

Two people connected to the Redpath Museum died on听April 8, 2020: Robert 鈥淏ob鈥� Lynn Carroll, vertebrate paleontologist, aged 81 years old and Joan Clark, patent lawyer, aged 90 years old.