Richard Laub

Richard S. Laub is Curator of Geology at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Laub has his B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York, his M.S. in paleontology and paleoecology at Cornell University, and his PhD. from the University of Cincinnati. [http://www.sciencebuff.org/dr_laub.php Buffalo Museum of Science - Dr Laub ] ]

Laub is interested in paleoecology and archaeology of the Northeast. He is directing the excavations at the Hiscock Site in Byron, New York. [ Journey to the Ice Age: Discovering an Ancient World by Peter L. Storck , 2004, p. 221-2]

Laub has hypothesized that an epidemic of tuberculosis may have helped drive the mastodons to extinction. [ [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,215220,00.html FOXNews.com - Tuberculosis May Have Helped Bring Down Mastodons - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News ] ] [ [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061003-mastodons.html Mastodons Driven to Extinction by Tuberculosis, Fossils Suggest ] ] [ [http://www.livescience.com/animals/060922_mastodon_tb.html Tuberculosis Helped Bring Down Mastodons | LiveScience ] ] "Based on the finding, it's likely that virtually every late Ice Age mastodon in North America had tuberculosis," Laub says. [ news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061003-mastodons.html ]

He was able to demonstrate that giant condors once lived in upstate New York. [ [http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Conservation_Condor.html Conservation of the California Condor ] ]

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