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Desui Miao
Collection Manager
Vertebrate Paleontology
Biodiversity Institute

Contact Information

Office Phone: 
785.864.3317
Email: 
dmiao@ku.edu
Building: 
Dyche Hall

Research Projects

Active Projects

Wyoming Dinosaurs
Morrison Formation
Our excavations in northeastern Wyoming have produced one of the best collections of sauropod dinosaurs, including articulated, material that gives unique information about the appearance and functional morphology of these giant creatures.
Active
MY 140
dinosaurs, General Project, Jurassic, Morrison Formation, sauropods
Permian Kansas Fossils
The Permian of Kansas is producing a rich fauna of vertebrates from lakes marginal to the old seaway. Much of this fauna occurs in fossil burrows.
Active
General Project, lungfish

2008

Chang, M, Chen P, Wang Y, y. Wang, Miao D.  2008.  The Jehol Fossils: The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants. The Jehol Fossils: The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants. :1-208.
Chang, M, Wang X, Liu H, Miao D, Zhao Q, Wu G, Liu J, Li Q, Sun Z, Wang N.  2008.  Extraordinarily thick-boned fish linked to the aridification of the Qaidam Basin (northern Tibetan Plateau). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 105:13246-51. Abstract
Burnham, DA, Miao D, Martin LD, Alexander D.  2008.  The Flight of the Microraptor. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28:58a-58a.

2007

Miao, D, Shen SZ, Wang XD.  2007.  A true Sower Remembered: Prof. Yugan Jin's Contributions to Brachiopod Paleontology and Carboniferous and Permian Stratigraphy. Paleoworld. 16:4-8.

2006

Shen, SZ, Miao D, Wang XD.  2006.  In Memory of Prof. Yugan (1937-2006) An insperational leader of paleontology and Permian stratigraphy. Permophiles. 48:4.
Chang, MM, Zhang J, Miao D.  2006.  A lamprey from the Cretaceous Jehol biota of China. Nature. 441:972-4. Abstract

2005

Wang, X, Miao D, Zhang Y.  2005.  Cannibalism in a semi-aquatic reptile from the Early Cretaceous of China. Chinese Science Bulletin. 50:3.

2004

Chang, M-m, Miao D.  2004.  An overview of Mesozoic fishes in Asia. Mesozoic Fishes 3 - Systematics, paleoenviroments and biodiversity. :535-563.

2003

Chang, M-m, Chen P, Wang Y, Miao D.  2003.  The Jehol Biota: The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants.

2002

Chang, M-m, Miao D, Wang Y.  2002.  Paleontological Research in China: Retrospect and Prospect.. Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 16:4.

2001

Chang, M-m, Miao D, al. E.  2001.  Suckers (Fish, Catostomidae) from the Eocene of China account for the family's current disjunct distributions. Science in China (Series D). 44:10.

2000

Lim, JD, Miao D.  2000.  New Species of Leptarctus (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the Miocene of Nebraska, USA. Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 38:6.

1999

Miao, D.  1999.  China. :261-266.

1993

Miao, D.  1993.  How to Write Abstracts and Summaries of Paleontological Papers. Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 31:9.
Miao, D.  1993.  Cranial Morphology and Multituberculate Relationships. Mammal Phylogeny: Mesozoic Differentiation, Multituberculates, Monotremes, Early Therians, and Marsupials. :63-74.

1991

Miao, D.  1991.  On the origins of mammals. Origins of the higher groups of tetrapods: controversy and consensus.. :579-597.

1988

Miao, D.  1988.  Skull Morphology of Lambdopsalis bulla (Mammalia, Multituberculata) and its Implications to Mammalian Evolution.. Contributions to Geology University of Wyoming. Special Paper:105.

1986

Simmons, NB, Miao D.  1986.  Paraphyly in Catopsalis (Mammalia, Multituberculata) and its Biogeographic Implications. Vertabrates, phylogeny and philosophy. 3:87-94.
Miao, D, Lillegraven JA.  1986.  Discovery of the Three Ear Ossicles in a Multituberculate Mammal. National Geographic Research. 2:8.
Miao, D.  1986.  Dental Anatomy and Ontogeny of Lamdopsalis bulla (Mammalia, Multituberculata). Contributions to Geology University of Wyoming. 24:12.

A New Understanding in Bird Evolution
September 7, 2011

A new discovery by researchers from the University of Kansas and China pushes back by millions of years proof that birds’ digestive systems have ancient origins. The investigators found fossil evidence of a crop — the muscular pocket in the esophagus that most modern birds use to store and soften seeds — in two avian species from the Early Cretaceous, the most recent period of the Mesozoic Era, about 130 million years ago.

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