New expedition in Java, Indonesia

Freshwater otoliths from NW India

New specimens from Costa Rica

Tupper Seminar @STRI

A new record of sand dollar

Otoliths to reconstruct a 3,000-year-old fishery from N Taiwan

First frog and snake fossils from S Taiwan

Sampling more fish in Nha Trang, Vietnam

Interns in the lab

Visiting researcher @UNIBA, Italy

Lab is attending the IPFC

EMBERS visiting our lab

New fish fossil to work on

Attending 5th Palaeontological

virtual congress

@Taipei book fair to promote our works

We are in the central Philippines for more fossils

Open House event in the AS southern campus, Tainan

Euro trip for loaning more fossils

New echinoid assemblage from S Taiwan

Fish fossils in the Philippines!

New fish introduced by our team

Attending Taiwan ichthyology meeting

Our latest works and activities advertised in Open Museum

Fossil paradise Penghu archipelago

Digging a new fish skeleton from Taiwan

Stay tuned for this new discovery!

Back in Panama for more projects!

Fish sampling in Vietnam and new paper from Brunei

New paper from the lab

New bird fossils from Taiwan

Young paleontologists in Taiwan

Our lab hosted a gathering event for Postdocs, PhD and young students

New paper

Our article on Early Pliocene deep-sea otoliths from Taiwan in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology

Attending ECI 2023

Five presentations @ European Congress of Ichthyology, Prague

Attending APC2

Three presentations @ 2nd Asian Palaeontological Congress, Tokyo

New paper

Our article on the mesopelagic fish community over the past 460 kyr is in Science Advances

Sepkoski Grant

Our small proposal on the Filipino fish fossils was awarded by the Paleontological Society, USA.

New paper

We found a very interesting fish community during the warmer-than-present period in temperate Japan (super warm MIS 5e).

Project funded!

Diana's small grant on Taiwanese fossil bivalves was awarded by Palaeontological Assocaition, UK.

Field trip in the Philippines

We are collecting fossils and fresh fish samples at many amazing Filipino sites.

Apply now for our summer intern

At least three summer internships are open in our lab. Contact us for more information.

@ Prague for more fish fossils

Visiting the Institute of Geology, Czech Academy of Sciences for our joint project.

New paper on CPB

Our paper, led by Erin, defines conservation paleobiology for the first time in 20 years.

@ IPC6

Presenting our latest findings at the 6th International Palaeontological Congress in Thailand

New fossil shark paper

Our first fossil elasmobranch paper is out. More to come soon!

New PhD student

Our first TIGP student, Dom, joins our team this month. He will be exploring lots of otoliths and their morphology!

New member

Our new RA, Jia-Rong, will be in our lab for geochemical analyses of fish otoliths.

Back to the field & new fellow

Fossil locality at the southern tip of Taiwan is our next target, and we welcome our new fellow Diana.

Unboxing Marine Paleontology lab

A full-page article on our lab & research

Sea bream fossil from Taiwan

The first skeletal fossil record described by our team was a fantastic experience working on it.

Eocene otoliths from the US

Our new monograph is finally out! This time based on >25000 otoliths, plenty of new stuff

Archaeological fish otoliths

Fish otoliths as a tool to reveal the coastal fish diversity in prehistoric Taiwan.

New coral record

Finally, it has a name. Dendrophyllia coral found from a late Miocene stratum in northern Taiwan, amazing discovery!!

Project funded!

Our small fossil shark teeth project is now funded by the Palaeontological Assocaition, UK. What a start for 2022!

New 3D scanner for small fossils

Our latest toy has arrived!

 Lab is presenting 4 conference papers@ Geosciences2021

 Live show @ 

Iasang ART

Opening a course @ NTU GEO

Want to know what our lab is doing? Then take my course "Fish diversity across time and space" this semester!

 New member in the lab

We are pleased to have Siao-Man onboard. She worked on avian evolution, but will help us analyze fish fossils.

 Late Miocene otoliths from Taiwan

Our new paper is out. Get a copy!

 We are hiring!

A Postdoc or RA is available. Please check here or contact me directly. 

 Tons of fossils in the collection

We received many fossils from Prof. Tao (NTU), and now they are deposited at the BRC fossil collection

 Teeth of Palaeoloxodon

We reconstructed the age-population structure of P. huaihoensis through the morphology of their teeth. Cool!!

 Chibanian otoliths from Japan

Our new paper discussed the influence of ancient Kuroshio Current on Japanese fish fauna

 New member in the lab

We are pleased to have Chia-Yen onboard to help with shark fossils

 Fossil fish from Szekou Formation

A new sparid from Taiwan? Stay tune for more results

 Our formal otolith cabinet has arrived

Welcome to examine, deposit and exchange otoliths with us

What does Bigeye tuna eat?

Our new paper reveals not just what tunas eat but they eat differently through life

Working on ODP otoliths

We are launching a side project with Prof. Li Lo at the Dept. of Geosciences, NTU

The art of delivering lab experiences

Many have been obtained and we look forward to the second internship next year

Summer workshops underway

We are holding numerous workshops: fish taxonomy, micro-photography, and more

Each fossil has a story

The online Taiwan News has a full-page article on what our lab is currently doing

New! Lab & lab members are here!

Stay tuned for the upcoming new lab page

NEW lab under construction! 

Invited seminar 

Title: From tiny fossils to big questions: a multidisciplinary approach in traditional paleontology @LS114, Tunghai University

Learn More

Brunei expedition 

Just came back from a sampling trip with lots of recent fish, otoliths, and fossils. Stay tuned for further details on this material!

What do otters eat in Kinmen?

From the otoliths in their spraints, Eurasian otters mostly consume tilapia, an invasive fish on the island. (my co-supervised master's thesis was just out by Yi-shiuan Tai)

Sampling fish at midnight 

At this fish market in Keelung, you got something special; the only bad thing is that they start at 2 am

Fish fossils of Taiwan: 

Our new paper on "Where to find and why we should care about fish fossils in Taiwan" is now published online in Historical Biology

The paper 

Invited seminar 

Title: The fossil otoliths: the known, the unknown, and why should we care @National Taiwan Ocean University,  Room FSH107

Learn more

New content released 

FIELD TRIP & EVENTS

Eocene otoliths of Gulf coastal plain revisited 

Back to Bari, Italy for about 2 weeks for finalizing the project: Eocene otoliths from the US Gulf coast

Summer expeditions 

Busy collecting so many samples for the project: Neogene otolith-based fish fauna from the western Pacific.

Sampling in Japan 

Had a nice sampling trip in Japan in the end of last month, which I hope will be a fantastic beginning of understanding the Neogene otolith-based fish fauna from the western Pacific.

Otoliths from the reefs 

Our paper entitled "Reconstructing reef fish communities using fish otoliths in coral reef sediments" is now available in PLOS ONE

The paper 

Public seminar 

A general introduction to FISH OTOLITH at the Tainan City Zuojhen Fossil Park, Tainan, Taiwan. 

Invited seminar 

It's my honor to be invited to talk about: Fish Otoliths in Time and Space: Exploring the Diversity of Fish Through Their Fossil Records at the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica

Learn more 

Project funded!!! 

I am very happy to announce that the research project entitled "Significances of changes in the fish community composition in NW Pacific over the last 2 Ma" is now funded by MOST, Taiwan

Learn more 

Opening 2 courses

Comparative anatomy (with Dr. Chun-Hsiang Chang)

Advanced ecology (with Dr. Shan-Hua Yang & Dr. Chung-Te Chang)

First description of fossil otoliths from Taiwan is out

Lin, C.-H., et al. 2018. Common early Pleistocene fish otoliths from Niubu in Chia-Yi County, southwestern Taiwan. Journal of the National Taiwan Museum 71(3): 47–68

New project: The hidden diversity of fish otolith in Traditional Chinese Medicine

What are they & Why should we care?

Learn more 

New office established

(to be continued...)

How I Landed My Dream Job in the Caribbean

See Katie's (my intern) story here

Redefining

Pristine

See our previous research story at O’Dea’s lab here