Pleistocene Park: Film Screening
Pleistocene Park: Film Screening
Monday, April 3rd at 3:30 PM
Yale Science Building, O.C. Marsh Lecture Hall
Join us for a different way to start your week! The Yale...
Study Reveals Biodiversity Engine for Fishes: Shifting Water Depth
Fish, the most biodiverse vertebrates in the animal kingdom, present evolutionary biologists a conundrum: The greatest species richness is found in the world’s tropical...
It Takes a Village: A Paleoanthropologist's Journey Leads to Community
For nearly two decades, assistant professor of anthropology at Yale, curator at the Yale Peabody Museum, and YIBS affiliate, Jessica Thompson has investigated the history of...
Joint Mobility as a Bridge Between Form and Function
In a recent article published by the Journal of Experimental Biology, Armita Manafzadeh (YIBS Gaylord Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate) examines how joints enable nearly all...
A Pair of Lizard ‘Kings’ from the Old, Old West
Yale researchers have identified the oldest-known, definitive members of the lizard crown group that includes all living lizards and their closest extinct relatives. The two...
An Ecological Rule Breaker Shows the Effects of Climate Change on Body Size
The Northern Treeshrew, a small, bushy-tailed mammal native to South and Southeast Asia, defies two of the most widely tested ecological “rules” of body size variation within...
YIBS Postdoc Wins Romer Prize for 3D Modeling of Extinct Animal Joints
Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) Gaylord Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate, Armita Manafzadeh was presented the Romer Prize by the Society of Vertebrate...
