Alberto Boscaini

I'm an Italian paleontologist, with a passion for fossils since I was four and an ever-growing love for life and all its endless forms. After a bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Padova I attended a Master degree in Paleontology at the Autonomous University Barcelona, where I had the opportunity to study the origin of the critically endangered Iberian lynx. The results of my thesis were published in the scientific literature and echoed in some international media, like: http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/17862/2015... http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians... http://www.elmundo.es/ciencia/2015/10/28/5630a3fac... http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/ciencia/lin... http://www.abc.es/ciencia/abci-primer-lince-iberic... Now I'm a PhD student in Mendoza (Argentina) and my new project is about the ground sloths of the Bolivian Altiplano, with the aim to shed light on the taxonomy, the phylogeny and peculiar adaptations of the xenartharn species that inhabited the heart of South America just before the Great American Biotic Interchange (G.A.B.I.).

March 2016