Scholars@Duke
Matthew Borths

Matthew Borths

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology
Evolutionary Anthropology
1013 Broad St., Durham, NC 27705
1013 Broad St., Durham, NC 27705

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology · 2019 - Present Evolutionary Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News

Published February 9, 2026
A Creature That Has a Superpower
Published October 9, 2024
Listen from the Lemur Center: How Changes in Lemur Populations Can Impact the Whole Forest Community
Published October 12, 2023
Fossils at Lemur Center Museum Tell an Old Story

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Recent Publications

From Knowledge to Action: Next Steps for the Natural Science Collections Community

Journal Article BioScience · March 23, 2026 AbstractFollowing decades of increasing collaboration and organization, the United States natural science collections community is uniting around the creation of a national center supporting biological co ... Full text Cite

Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, gen. et sp. nov. (Hyainailourinae, Hyaenodonta, ‘Creodonta,’ Mammalia), a gigantic carnivore from the earliest Miocene of Kenya

Journal Article Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology · January 1, 2019 Hyainailourine hyaenodonts are among the largest terrestrial carnivorous mammals known. The clade is widely dispersed, found in Eurasia, North America, and Afro-Arabia in the Paleogene and early Neogene. In this study, we describe dental and postcranial ma ... Full text Cite

The first hyaenodont from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Tanzania: Paleoecological insights into the Paleogene-Neogene carnivore transition.

Journal Article PloS one · January 2017 Throughout the Paleogene, most terrestrial carnivore niches in Afro-Arabia were occupied by Hyaenodonta, an extinct lineage of placental mammals. By the end of the Miocene, terrestrial carnivore niches had shifted to members of Carnivora, a clade with Eura ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants

Telling the Primate Story through Exhibits and Classroom Outreach

Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences · 2025 - 2026

Conservation and Preservation of the Duke Lemur Center Colony Collection

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Preservation Consortium · 2025 - 2026

CSBR: Rescuing and Sharing a Unique and Irreplaceable Fossil Collection at the Duke Lemur Center

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2025

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Education

Stony Brook University · 2015 Ph.D.
Stony Brook University · 2012 M.S.
Ohio State University · 2008 B.S.