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June 7, 2021
The ancient burrowers of the seafloor have been getting a bum rap for years. These prehistoric dirt churners — a wide assortment of worms, trilobites, and other animals that...
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...