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Natasha VitekAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Ecology and EvolutionCollege of Arts and Sciences
Biography
Natasha Vitek is a paleontologist studying the evolutionary consequences of variation in the fossil record. She measures the shapes of modern and fossilized animals to link what we know about today’s world to the long timescales of the past. Her current research focuses on how species have survived previous episodes of climate change and how factors like development, nutrition, and their community could have shaped their responses.
Education
- PhD, University of Florida
- MS, University of Texas at Austin
- BS, Yale University
News Highlights
August 31, 2022Early mammals lived faster and died younger than modern onesNew ScientistRead ArticleJuly 2, 2019Harvester ants: The first solar engineers, fossil huntersAustin American-StatesmanRead ArticleMarch 28, 2018Turtle shells help decode complex links between modern, fossil speciesFlorida MuseumRead ArticleOctober 3, 2017Odd couple: Florida mouse, gopher tortoise have been rooming for centuriesFlorida MuseumRead Article