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June 2, 2021
The biggest shark attack in history did not involve humans. A new study by Earth scientists from Yale and the College of the Atlantic has turned up a massive die-off of...
May 27, 2021
David Bercovici and Liza Comita have been announced as the inaugural co-directors of the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC). The YCNCC’s primary mission is to...
May 26, 2021
The rise and fall of marine mollusks during ancient “hothouse” periods may offer a jarring glimpse of the fate of marine life over the next few centuries, a new study says....
May 17, 2021
If paleontologists had a wish list, it would almost certainly include insights into two particular phenomena: how dinosaurs interacted with each other and how they began to...
May 4, 2021
Ian graduated with his PhD from Yale in 2008, with Leo Hickey and Mark Brandon as co-advisors. As chief science and innovation officer at the National Geographic Society, Ian...
April 28, 2021
Researchers at Yale and Princeton say the scientific community sorely needs a new way to compare the cascading effects of ecosystem loss due to human-induced environmental...
April 26, 2021
It was always going to be a big lift, piecing together the story of how sauropods — the long-necked, lumbering giants of the dinosaur world — developed their remarkable, box-...