We are pleased to have Chia-Yen onboard to help with shark fossils
February 2021
Fossil fish from Ssukou Formation
A new sparid from Taiwan? Stay tune for more results
January 2021
Our formal otolith cabinet has arrived
Welcome to examine, deposit and exchange otoliths with us
December 2020
Our new paper reveals not just what tunas eat but they eat differently through life
November 2020
Working on ODP otoliths
We are launching a side project with Prof. Li Lo at the Dept. of Geosciences, NTU
October 2020
Many have been obtained and we look forward to the second internship next year
September 2020
Summer workshops underway
We are holding numerous workshops: fish taxonomy, micro-photography, and more
August 2020
Each fossil has a story
The online Taiwan News has a full-page article on what our lab is currently doing
July 2020
New!
Lab & lab members are here!
Stay tuned for the upcoming new lab page
June 2020
NEW lab under construction!
May 2020
Invited seminar
Title: From tiny fossils to big questions: a multidisciplinary approach in traditional paleontology @LS114, Department of Life Science, Tunghai University
April 2020
Brunei expedition
Just came back from a sampling trip with lots of recent fish, otoliths, and fossils. Stay tuned for further details on this material!
March 2020
What do otters eat in Kinmen?
From the otoliths in their spraints, Eurasian otters mostly consume tilapia, an invasive fish on the island. (my co-supervised master's thesis was just out by Yi-shiuan Tai)
February 2020
Sampling fish at midnight
At this fish market in Keelung, you got something special; the only bad thing is that they start at 2 am
January 2020
Fish fossils of Taiwan:
Our new paper on "Where to find and why we should care about fish fossils in Taiwan" is now published online in Historical Biology
December 2019
Invited seminar
Title: The fossil otoliths: the known, the unknown, and why should we care @National Taiwan Ocean University, Room FSH107
November 2019
Eocene otoliths of Gulf coastal plain revisited
Back to Bari, Italy for about 2 weeks for finalizing the project: Eocene otoliths from the US Gulf coast
September 2019
Summer expeditions
Busy collecting so many samples for the project: Neogene otolith-based fish fauna from the western Pacific.
August 2019
Sampling in Japan
Had a nice sampling trip in Japan in the end of last month, which I hope will be a fantastic beginning of understanding the Neogene otolith-based fish fauna from the western Pacific.
July 2019
Otoliths from the reefs
Our paper entitled "Reconstructing reef fish communities using fish otoliths in coral reef sediments" is now available in PLOS ONE
June 2019
Public seminar
A general introduction to FISH OTOLITH at the Tainan City Zuojhen Fossil Park, Tainan, Taiwan.
May 2019
Invited seminar
It's my honor to be invited to talk about: Fish Otoliths in Time and Space: Exploring the Diversity of Fish Through Their Fossil Records at the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
April 2019
Project funded!!!
I am very happy to announce that the research project entitled "Significances of changes in the fish community composition in NW Pacific over the last 2 Ma" is now funded by MOST, Taiwan
March 2019
Opening 2 courses
Comparative anatomy (with Dr. Chun-Hsiang Chang)
Advanced ecology (with Dr. Shan-Hua Yang & Dr. Chung-Te Chang)
February 2019
First description of fossil otoliths from Taiwan is out
Lin, C.-H., et al. 2018. Common early Pleistocene fish otoliths from Niubu in Chia-Yi County, southwestern Taiwan. Journal of the National Taiwan Museum 71(3): 47–68
January 2019
New project: The hidden diversity of fish otolith in Traditional Chinese Medicine
What are they & Why should we care?
December 2018
