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  1. The evolutionary path from dinosaurs to birds included the development of a tiny wrist bone that ultimately proved crucial for stabilizing wings in flight.

    A life reconstruction of the specimen of Citipati, a dinosaur closely related to birds, analyzed with an x-ray cutaway of the specimen’s wrist. The small and rounded pisiform is highlighted in blue. Image credit: Henry S. Sharpe/University of Alberta.
  2. In the latest “Rose Walk and Talk,” Yale paleontologist Bhart-Anjan Bhullar shares his thoughts — just in time for the next “Jurassic World” movie — on which dinosaurs would have been most aggressive around humans.

    Still image of a tyrannosaurus rex model, captured from the 1925 movie, "The Lost World."
  3. A non-profit organization building on research from Yale’s Noah Planavsky has won the $50 million grand prize from the XPRIZE Carbon Removal international competition.

    Noah Plavansky
  4. Matthew Eisaman, a global expert in the field of natural carbon capture, was remembered as a pioneering scientist and a valued colleague and mentor.

    Matthew Eisaman, Associate Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences
  5. A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million years.

    AI-generated image of a giant hand dipping an acidity test strip into the ocean near an active volcano.
  6. Yale researchers deliver insights into a pair of spiky sea creatures, the use of AI triage, and brain connections in the early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease.

    A virtual reconstruction of Punk ferox, highlighting the ancient mollusk’s top-of-the-body spikes (purple).
  7. A new Yale study finds that a destabilized ozone layer may have delayed the rise of land animals and plants on Earth.

    Noah Planavsky.
  8. In the field and in the lab, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Lidya Tarhan is deepening our understanding of early evolution and uncovering ancient organisms in Earth's sedimentary record.

    Lidya Tarhan
  9. Yale researchers find paleontological origins of the way modern birds navigate the world when they’re not in flight.

    Thumbnail of a Yale News video featuring two Yale paleontologists discussing
  10. Derek Briggs, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has helped identify ancient “gold” bug fossils as a new species of arthropod.

    This life reconstruction image shows Lomankus edgecombei in what would have been its natural marine environment. (Illustration by Xiaodong Wang)