Carved in stone: BU lab houses one of best, largest Devonian plant collections in world
To the untrained, it might look like an unappealing, discolored piece of rock. To William Stein’s eye, the sediment reveals a world of research, history and opportunity. Stein, associate professor of biological sciences specializing in paleobotany, the study of fossilized plants, runs a research laboratory that is home to one of the best and largest collections of Devonian Era plant fossils in North America, if not the world. Read more
