Study led by YIBS Faculty Affiliate Richard Prum's lab reveals mating tip for bird species: You should be dancing
When it comes to impressing the ladies, greater sage-grouse males know that smooth dance moves trump combative posturing. Indeed, new Yale research into these prairie-...
Even birds can’t outfly climate change
As rising global temperatures alter ecosystems worldwide, animal species usually have two choices: adapt to changing local conditions or flee to a cooler clime. Ecologists...
YIBS Faculty Affiliate Thomas Near and others find two new fish species in Alabama streams — and they’re already imperiled
Yale researchers have discovered two new species of darter — small, colorful freshwater fishes — inhabiting short stretches of creeks and streams in central Alabama.
And...
Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture: The World Without Evolution? with Andrew Hendry
Dear YIBS community,
Please join us in attending the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture: The World Without Evolution? with Andrew Hendry
Date: Wednesday, April 23rd from...
Nonprofit built on research from YIBS Faculty Affiliate Noah Planavsky wins global carbon removal prize
Normally, throwing rocks at a problem isn’t the best idea.
But in the multi-faceted fight to combat climate change, scientists are finding that crushed rocks judiciously...
A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal
For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about...
Fish at center of key conservation fight not a distinct species after all
In the late-1970s, a small freshwater fish known as the snail darter made history when its newly acquired status as an endangered species helped to temporarily block...
