News

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-...
April 5, 2021
Undergraduate researcher Gavi Welbel’s work on rethinking our agricultural system to be carbon negative was featured in Teen Vogue: At the beginning of 2020, Rohit...
March 25, 2021
Conversations about geology with researchers making key contributions to our understanding of the Earth and the Solar System. What moves continents, creates mountains,...
March 17, 2021
Lightning strikes — perhaps a quintillion of them, occurring over a billion years — may have provided sparks of life for the early Earth. A new study by researchers at Yale...