Dr. Yara Haridi

And so I'm really interested in the jump from gooey things that were our vertebrate ancestors, chordates, et cetera, to the jump of like fully armored fish.

Because in the fossil record, that looks like it just happens.

There's no transition between fully naked goopy thing to mega armored fish.

We don't have anything in the middle.

We don't have a lightly armored fish in between.

I think that's a hopeful thing because I'm excited.

I mean, that's the direction I want my research to go.

That's what we're hoping to find.

It's still, you know, when I talk to kids nowadays, they're like, oh, everything's been discovered.

Or, you know, a lot of people think that about science.

Oh, everything's already been found out.

But there's still so much mystery.

And this is one of them.

So there's a lot of space for young scientists to come in and expand, especially with new technology.

There's a lot of ways to ask or re-ask old questions.

So I was just out in Colorado.

We were looking at this one road cut.

So there's this one area there about two dynamite because they're making this road really wide.

And that area has this formation called the Harding Sandstone, which is something that we are interested in because that's where we find these little guys from the Middle Order Division.

So they called me up and they're like, hey, are you interested in working on this before we blow it up?