Outreach

Our research group believes that science communication is important in bringing the field of ichnology and the stories of ancient life to a large audience. This page contains links to news articles and lectures featuring Dr. Buatois, Dr. Mangano, current students and alumni.

News Articles

2025

Jack Milligan and Kaitlin Lindblad featured in revival of Walking with Dinosaurs

Usask College of Arts and Science News

Ichnology research team traces ancient deep-marine trace fossils for evolutionary clues

USASK Communications

2022

Researchers help crack 518-million-year-old mystery of the Chengjiang Biota

CTV News Saskatoon

Dr. Luis Buatois has been awarded the 2022 Raymond C. Moore Medal for Paleontology from the Society for Sedimentary Geology

USASK College of Arts and Science News

2022 SEPM Awards – Raymond C. Moore Paleontology Medal Winner Interview – Luis Buatois

2021

Nic Minter says fossil secret may shed light on the diversity of Earth’s first animals

USASK Communications

New research examines the impact of the End-Permian Mass Extinction Event on invertebrates

USASK College of Arts and Sciences News

USask research rewrites the story of early arthropods

USASK College of Arts and Science News

2020

Traces of ancient life tell the story of early diversity in marine ecosystems

USASK Research Profile

A fossilized meandering grazing trail from the Cambrian
Trilobite trace fossils (Cruziana) from the Great Ordovician Biodiversity Event

2019

Paleontologists using 100-year-old field notes to relocate Triceratops quarries in Saskatchewan

Regina Leader-Post

These slimy, hungry blobs may have been the Earth’s first creepy crawlies

CBC News Science

2018

Meagan Gilbert says rocks tell the story of Saskatchewan’s tropical past

USASK Communications

2017

The worms that changed the world

USASK College of Arts and Science News

2016

Check out this interview with Dr. Mángano, where she discusses her passion for fossils, fieldwork, science communication, and her enthusiasm for teaching students.

Saskatoon StarPhoenix

2014

Trilobites in Cambrian tidal flats

Earth Magazine

Trilobites in early Cambrian tidal flats and the landward expansion of the Cambrian explosion

2012

Patricio Desjardins wins the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Best PhD Thesis Award

USASK Communications

2011

Canadian researchers track half-billion-year-old predator

USASK Communications

Skimming the surface with Burgess Shale arthropod locomotion

Lectures and videos

An Alternative Reading of the History of Life, a perspective through the lens of the trace fossil record, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
The weight of What’s Missing in Geology – Dr. Luis Buatois, U. of Saskatchewan, DemystifySci Podcast
Mate geológico con Luis Buatois, Mate Geológico y Paleontológico
Life forms already existed on ocean floor over 500-M years ago, scientists say, UNTV News and Rescue
Experimental modelling of sedimentary processes for the Burgess Shale, Palaeocast Palaeontology Podcasts at the Palaleontological Association Annual Meeting 2017, Imperial College London
Icnología – Dra. Luis Buatois y Dra. Gabriela Mángano, Asociación Paleontológica Argentina
Icnología. Diálogos en tiempos de cuarentena. A cargo de los Dres. Mangano, Buatois y Casadio, UNRN Geology
2024 SEPM Awards Honorary Member Gabriela Mangano, SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology
Incorporación de la académica María Gabriela Magnano, Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
Using Trace Fossils to Reconstruct Palaeoenvironments, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology Speaker Series
Pre-Cambrian Geological Laboratory | Saskatchewan Geological Survey, Saskatchewan Trade & Invest
Megan Gilbert: Depositional History of Calf Creek Locality (Cypress Hills Formation), Saskatchewan, Alberta Palaeontological Society
University of Saskatchewan 3MT Presentations 2018 Meagan Gilbert, University of Saskatchewan
3MT Martin Ezequiel Farina, University of Saskatchewan
Earth, Interrupted, Threads: Cultural Conversations