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April 14, 2015
They weren’t in the delivery room, but researchers at Yale University and the University of Toronto have discovered a new birth story for a gigantic marine lizard that once...
March 31, 2015
Scientists aboard the icebound R.V. Lance study the effect of warming temperatures on the Arctic.
March 12, 2015
Newly discovered fossils of a giant, extinct sea creature show it had modified legs, gills on its back, and a filter system for feeding — providing key evidence about the...
March 9, 2015
The world’s oldest scientific journal is celebrating its 350th anniversary with commentaries by leading scientists, including Yale paleontologist Derek Briggs. In two special...
March 2, 2015
Birds are dinosaurs. That’s a fact underscored by dozens upon dozens of discoveries in the last 30 years. Free of the historic blinders that cast dinosaurs as monstrous...
February 3, 2015
The proposal, ”Origin of the modern avian locomotor system across a neglected evolutionary interval: insights from new methods and new fossils”, was recommended for funding...
January 21, 2015
Yale-led research may have solved one of the biggest mysteries in geology — namely, why do tectonic plates beneath the Earth’s surface, which normally shift over the course...