By Jim Shelton
May 6, 2021
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Hesperornis image provided by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. (Photo: Robert Lorenz)
If paleontologists had a wish list, it would almost certainly include insights into two particular phenomena: how dinosaurs interacted with each other and how they began to fly.
The problem is, using fossils to deduce such behavior is a tricky business. But a new, Yale-led study offers a promising entry point the inner ear of an ancient reptile.
According to the study, the shape of the inner ear offers reliable signs as to whether an animal soared gracefully through the air, flew only fitfully, walked on the ground, or sometimes went swimming. In some cases, the inner ear even indicates whether a species did its parenting by listening to the high-pitched cries of its babies.
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By Mike Cummings
April 20, 2021
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Yale’s campus is always evolving to serve the university’s mission. Buildings go up, come down, and transform even during the pandemic. Yale soon will introduce several impressive new spaces for thinking, studying, relaxing, and finding inspiration.
Four major construction projects have wrapped up in the past year, despite a two-month pause at the pandemic’s onset, and a fifth project, a new field house at the university’s athletic complex in New Haven’s Westville neighborhood, is slated for completion in May. Other projects are now in progress.
By Jim Shelton
April 14, 2021
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Anchisaurus fossil from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
It was always going to be a big lift, piecing together the story of how sauropods the long-necked, lumbering giants of the dinosaur world developed their remarkable, box-like heads.
But Yale paleontologists have done just that. They say their findings add crucial information about the origins of some of the world’s best-known dinosaurs.
Sauropods, named by pioneering Yale paleontologist O.C. Marsh in 1878, originated in the late Triassic period and roamed across the globe by the late Jurassic period, 150 million years ago. These plant-eating creatures included
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