Florida Museum of Natural History
Jukar Lab
Led by Advait Jukar · Florida Museum of Natural History (Vertebrate Paleontology)
What we study
The Jukar Lab studies the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems, focusing on megafaunal extinctions, mammalian and dinosaurian paleoecology, and biogeography. They analyze fossils to understand past environments and species interactions.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Computational
- Wild animals
- Coding helps
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
The Megafaunal Extinction in North America: How Much Do We Know?
The lab reviews radiocarbon dates of large North American mammals that died in the last 50,000 years. It maps where dates exist and where gaps remain, especially in the southeast and Florida.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 239
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Recent papers, explained
- Additional mammalian record from the Miocene (Tortonian; ~10 Ma) locality of Tapar, Kutch Region, Gujarat State, western India: Biochronological and palaeoecological significance
2026 · The Anatomical Record
Shows how small mammals like mice and large animals like horses lived together in India 10 million years ago.
- Late Oligocene dugongid remains from India: insights into past seagrass-sirenian associations in the eastern Tethys
2026 · Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Finds sea cow bones from 24.37 million years ago in India, showing they lived near seagrass beds.
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- A new turiasaur (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) specimen from the Middle Jurassic of India
2026 · Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
- Ecological heterogeneity in the early Pleistocene Siwaliks: Insights from stable isotope analysis of fauna from the Haro River Quarry hyena den, Pakistan
2026 · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
- The Piram Island fossil mammals revisited: Implications for age and palaeoecology
2026 · The Anatomical Record
Describes new fossils from Piram Island, including a rodent, and suggests they are about 8.7 million years old.
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