Livingston Depot opens for new season with ‘Invisible Boundaries’ The Depot Museum is now open for the summer season. Visitors are welcome Monday through
Several years after he was ridiculed for serving the insects at his family’s sushi restaurant, the chef sees another opportunity to change American minds about consuming cicadas.
The inner ear of an ancient reptile offers a promising entry point to two particular phenomena: how dinosaurs interacted with each other and how they began to fly.
According to a new 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.
“Of all the structures that one can reconstruct from fossils, the inner ear is perhaps that which is most similar to a mechanical device,” Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, an assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences at Yale University and an assistant curator at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
No, Armand Morgan is not about to have his forefinger sliced off. He’s merely examining how the painter Rudolph F. Zallinger ’42BFA, ’71MFA, dealt with perspective in his famous
Age of Reptiles mural at Yale’s Peabody Museum. “When you’re up close to the mural you can see the things he did to help the view when you’re looking up from below,” explains Morgan, a senior instructor for education at the museum. For example, Zallinger “really exaggerated the size of the teeth on the left-hand side of
Tyrannosaurus’s jaws.” (We call that an understatement.)
The painting took five years and was completed in 1947. Now obscured by scaffolding,