Day of Departure

Los Angeles, California

The bags are packed, Gabriella is strapped in, and we look ahead to the discoveries and challenges that face us on the roof of the world.


We are not a superstitious bunch, but on the night before my flight, I sat in a Taiwanese boba tea shop, and opened a fortune cookie:


Let good fortune be with our crew, the scientific explorers of the world.

2008 Expedition begins 25 August 2008

After months of planning around unusually high uncertainty, the field vehicles for our 2008 Tibetan Plateau Expedition are slated to roll out of Beijing on Monday, 25 August 2008.

The initial leg of the journey is a 3-day drive to the plateau province of Qinghai. Look for our updates from the field soon!

~The Tibetan Plateau crew

The dire wolf of San Josecito Cave

Dr. Xiaoming Wang talks about the dire wolf (Canis dirus) skeleton on display in the Cenozoic Fossils Hall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.