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Alejandra Gandolfo

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Alejandra Gandolfo, associate professor in the Plant Biology Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science, is profiled in Daring to Dig: Women in American Paleontology, an exhibit from the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
fossil leaf

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The Gandolfo-Nixon lab studies the origin of Southern Hemisphere floras. “I initially became interested in the biogeographical patterns of extant plants—how these plants are distributed and how they have dispersed until they get to where we find...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Biology Section
Two fossilized flowers

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Researchers report the discovery of the first fossilized flowers from South America, and perhaps the entire Southern Hemisphere, following an extinction event that killed most dinosaurs.