The Department of Geology maintains a primary focus on paleontological research, with curators covering fossil mammals, fossil fish, fossil plants, fossil reptiles and amphibians, and fossil invertebrates. The study of meteoritics has been and continues to be the department's other major research area. The scientists in the Department of Geology, together with colleagues at area universities, form an integral part of one of the nation's largest concentrations of paleontologists, and one of the key meteoritics research groups in the world. Geology Department Research: Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles | Fossil Fishes | Fossil Invertebrates | Fossil Mammals | Fossil Plants | Meteorites | Paleontology