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October 15, 2015
From the Academy’s website: “Being elected a member of the Academy constitutes exclusive recognition of successful achievements. These could be prominent research in...
September 29, 2015
Earth’s early burrowers were slow to discover the bottom of the ocean as a good place to kick up dirt. New research suggests that ancient marine animals took millions of...
September 24, 2015
Yale University scientists have answered a 40-year-old question about Arctic ice thickness by treating the ice floes of the frozen seas like colliding molecules in a fluid or...
September 9, 2015
The award is given for the best oral presentation by a student studying paleoecology. Matt’s presentation was titled, “What actually happens to functional diversity...
September 3, 2015
There’s a twist in the turtle timeline. Thanks to new fossil evidence, paleontologists are able to prove that turtles share a recent common ancestor with birds and crocodiles...
September 1, 2015
You don’t name a sea creature after an ancient Greek warship unless it’s built like a predator. That’s certainly true of the recently discovered Pentecopterus, a giant sea...