Oonagh Degenhardt

Oonagh Degenhardt

California

American Isopod and Myriapod Group

Co-founder of the American Isopod and Myriapod Group

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Published on Mar 20, 2026

Additional Desert Species

In January we set out to the Mojave desert for a field work trip fully funded by the experiment grant! While a desert may seem like an odd place to find Isopods (a group which is heavily associated...

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Published on Aug 11, 2025

Arizona Isopods and Molecular Progress

Thanks to everyone that donated, we just got back from a very successful Arizona trip looking for Venezillo that was fully paid for by the experiment.com funds! We visited 7 separate populations on...

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Published on Jun 26, 2025

Thank you all!!

We made it to 100% thanks to all of your support!! Thank you all for donating, commenting and sharing to help this research become reality! We will continue to post updates on our research via lab ...

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Published on May 07, 2025

The Extreme Desert Species

We set off for another trip to find two more undescribed species of Venezillo (tropical pill woodlice) this time in the Mojave desert of California. While a desert may seem like an odd place to fin...

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Published on May 04, 2025

Progress

Last weekend we made a trip to the Sierra Nevadas to look for a strange population of Venezillo (Tropical pill woodlouse) that was talked about in a paper from the 1940s. The paper described the po...

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Published on Apr 13, 2025

Off to a good start

The project is off to a good start! Thank you so much to everyone who has donated already!! I wanted to share results that we have already! heres a photo of a new species that we verified from the ...

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