Discovery of Lonely Tortoise Doubles Known Members of Galapagos Species
The discovery in 2019 of a lone small female tortoise living on one of the most inaccessible islands of the Galapagos Islands has baffled evolutionary biologists. Only one...
Taking Dinosaurs’ Temperature with a New Biomarker
A Yale-led research team has turned up the heat on dinosaur metabolism — establishing that the earliest dinosaurs and pterosaurs had exceptionally high metabolic rates and...
Fighting Fire with Fire — Literally
Yale Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Associate Director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS), Carla Staver, has started hundreds of fires –...
Nonlethal Parasite Infections Can Lead to a Greener World
In their recent PNAS paper, YIBS affiliate & EEB Professor Vanessa Ezenwa et.al report on how sublethal parasitic infections can decrease herbivory rates, thus triggering...
Eight Yale Faculty Members Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Eight Yale faculty members (including YIBS affiliates Karen Seto, Richard Bribiescas, and YIBS External Advisory Board member, Dame Alison Richard) are among the 261...
Core Aspects of Climate Models are Sound — the Proof’s in the Plankton
Continents reconfigure, oceans shift, and ice sheets thicken and thaw, but for the past 95 million years Earth’s engine for distributing ocean heat has remained remarkably...
Increased Tree Cover in Savannas Provides Limited Benefit in Climate Fight
One proposed strategy in the fight against climate change is to increase tree cover in the world’s savannas, either through the planting of new trees or fire suppression, to...
