Smithsonian Interviews Paleontologist

Karen Poole, Ph.D., paleontologist and assistant professor of biomedical sciences at NYITCOM-Arkansas, is quoted in a Smithsonian article about a fossil from the beaked dinosaur Iani smithi, which was recently discovered in Utah and detailed in a new study. The reptile belonged to a group of dinosaurs called rhabdodontomorphs, which, as Poole previously hypothesized in her own research, were present in Cretaceous North America. Poole, who was not involved the Iani study, notes that the Utah discovery adds new evidence to support her hypothesis.