Peabody curators stimulate wonder through science

This fall, a popular undergraduate course on invertebrate biology taught by Casey Dunn, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology has been reinvented as a hands-on, field research experience on one of the region’s Thimble Islands.

In a new study, Yale researchers in the lab of Thomas Near, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, used genomic analysis to show when cavefishes lost their eyes, which provides a method for dating cave systems.

Prum, who is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, appeared on the Science Friday podcast to discuss a recently discovered dinosaur crest and the clues it may provide about dinosaur evolution.