In the present day, Oregon State University and the University of Oregon both maintain active research programs in paleontology. Oregon State University's Terry Lab, under the supervision of Rebecca Terry, produces research into paleoecology and Quaternary climate change. The University of Oregon's Vertebrate Paleontology Lab, under the supervision of Samantha Hopkins and Edward Davis, focuses on Oregon's extinct mammals. The University of Oregon's paleontology faculty also includes Greg Retallack, who studies fossilized soils. Many of the finds described above were collected, described, and analyzed by researchers in these programs and their predecessors.
