Research
Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory: History
Dr. Timothy Rowe became the fourth Director of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory in 1998. At the same time, the VPL was re-merged as a division of the Texas Memorial Museum. Currently, the Lab functions much as similar facilities at other major U.S. universities, performing the three-fold roles of research, education, and conservation. It has become a national center of excellence for the study of the history of prehistoric Life. In size, its collections are among the top ten such facilities in the U.S., and it hosts one of the largest graduate training programs in Vertebrate Paleontology in the nation.
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VPL's current Director, Dr. Tim Rowe (right), and Dr. Rich Cifelli (left, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History) haul a hadrosaur femur out of the Cretaceous badlands of New Mexico.
Photo by Steve Trimble, courtesy of Museum of Northern Arizona.
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