Madelaine Walker

grad school adventures & art from a paleoanth PhD candidate and natural history enthusiast linktree

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Starting to digitize some old doodles from my notebooks! This is a tardigrade (Milnesium tardigradum), a super tiny invertebrate that lives all over the world. They've been around since at least the Cretaceous, but probably longer!

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I made a little recap of my summer outreach activities!

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stopped by quite a few libraries in the Chicagoland area this week! Looking forward to cooking up some new activities and presentations for future visits 📚

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💚💙💜❤️💛💚💙💜❤️💛 I've made some new prints and stickers! I'm particularly enjoying this rainbow venus figurine sticker atm - link in bio if you want to take a peek

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Officially a PhD candidate!

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Ekembo, 2024

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Shameless self promo!

I'm slowly adding more doodles to my et*y shop and I feel like they're turning out pretty nice!

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Madelaine Walker: An Investigation into Human Evolution

Graduate student Madelaine Walker shares how the Fink Summer Fellowship allowed her to pursue research work in western Kenya and uncover tru

it's me!

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Me and my buddies - August 2023

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Primate friends at the Osteology Museum in Paris!

Summer 2023

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Back at the NMK - Summer 2023

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Miocene Paleontology in Kenya - Summer 2023

We've spent most of our time at a site called Chamtwara, screening and looking for tinier fossils.

Lots of little 20-million-year-old lizards and rodents - even flying squirrels! -- July 2023

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I had so much fun putting on my little fossil workshop this week! I loved being able to use my own doodles for the presentation and talk about what I do with all the excited kiddos.

Funny enough, I took my babysitting class in this room as a twelve-year-old before they revamped everything. Libraries are the best 📚

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Homo floresiensis

This is a cast of the LB 1 cranium from the island of Flores in Indonesia. These hominins lived super recently, less than 100,000 years ago, but retained a lot of features we would expect to see in much much older species.

They are very short and cool, and there's still a lot of work that needs to be done to figure out exactly what the heck their deal is 👌 -- February 2023

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I wrote something!

Gelada Poop, Primatologist Treasure

Uncovering Primate Social Structures through Feces

January 2023

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The largest and smallest living primates: Gorilla gorilla & Microcebus murinus (mouse lemur)🦍

Inspired by a figure in Size and Adaptation in Primates by John Fleagle (a chapter in Size and Scaling in Primate Biology ed. William Jungers).

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Synapsids

November 2022