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...
YIBS Faculty Affiliate Brandon Ogbunu receives National Academies Award
Yale computational biologist and YIBS faculty affiliate Brandon Ogbunu, whose research investigates complex problems in epidemiology, genetics, and evolution, has been...
