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Anna K. Behrensmeyer

Anna K. Behrensmeyer

Anna K. (Kay) Behrensmeyer is a Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Senior Scientist in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. She is Lead Scientist for the Deep Time Initiative, a member of the Core Team for the new David H. Koch Fossil Hall: Deep Time, and has explored the mysteries of fossilization on many continents throughout her career.

Stories from Anna K. Behrensmeyer

How do parts of ancient creatures, like this fossil skull of an extinct herbivore, Miniochoerus from 33 million years ago, manage to survive and end up in a museum exhibition?

How Do Fossils Form?

Learn from the Smithsonian’s curator of vertebrate paleontology Anna K. Behrensmeyer, a pioneer in the study of how organic remains become fossils