Richard Laub
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Richard S. Laub is Curator of Geology at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Laub has his B.A. from Queens College Queens College of the City University of New York, his M.S. in paleontology and paleoecology at Cornell University, and his PhD. from the University of Cincinnati. [1]
Laub is interested in paleoecology and archaeology of the Northeast. He is directing the excavations at the Hiscock Site in Byron, New York. [2] [3]
Laub has hypothesized that an epidemic of tuberculosis may have helped drive the mastadons to extinction. [4] [5] [6] "Based on the finding, it's likely that virtually every late Ice Age mastodon in North America had tuberculosis," Laub says. [7]
He was able to demonstrate that giant condors once lived in upstate New York.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ Buffalo Museum of Science - Dr Laub
- ^ Buffalo Museum of Science - Dr Laub
- ^ Journey to the Ice Age: Discovering an Ancient World by Peter L. Storck , 2004, p. 221-2
- ^ FOXNews.com - Tuberculosis May Have Helped Bring Down Mastodons - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
- ^ Mastodons Driven to Extinction by Tuberculosis, Fossils Suggest
- ^ Tuberculosis Helped Bring Down Mastodons | LiveScience
- ^ news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061003-mastodons.html
- ^ Conservation of the California Condor
