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The Box, New York Institute of Technology’s blog, features Ohio University alum Dr. Jason Bourke and his “dream career” in a faculty feature headlined “Dinosaur Anatomy Through the Nose.” Bourke earned a Ph.D. in Biological Science from the College of Arts & Sciences at OHIO in 2015. Assistant Professor Jason […]

National Geographic quotes Ohio University’s Ashley Morhardt, a doctoral student in Biological Sciences, in a story on “How Did Long-Necked Dinosaurs Drink Without Getting Dizzy?” Morhardt has been studying Dr. Larry Witmer’s anatomy lab for five years and will be graduating this summer. Many of us have gotten dizzy when […]

“Armored dinosaurs breathed through ‘Krazy Straws,’” LiveScience reporter Stephanie Pappas writes about a presentation by Ohio University Biological Sciences doctoral student Jason Bourke. The dinosaurs lacked respiratory turbinates, structures in the nasal cavity that warm and humidify the air coming in, and had to find a new way to do […]

It’s been millions of years since T. rex took its last breath, but a Biological Sciences grad student is part of a team breathing life back into dinosaurs using high-powered computer simulations to model airflow through dinosaur snouts. The research has important implications for how dinosaurs used their noses not […]