herpetology

I’m going to go beyond birds a few hundred million years to their precursors, who thrived long before our feathered mini-dinosaurs evolved. These ancient beings continue to thrive to this day.

Each November, a group with interest in reptiles and amphibians gets together in southern Utah to preserve roadkill specimens for future teaching and research purposes.

Umilaela Arifin recently spoke to the USU biology department about her work as a researcher and the Global Women in Herpetology Project.