Researchers at Yale and the American Museum of Natural History have identified the earliest known relative of octopuses and vampire squid — and named it after the 46th president of the United States.
Syllipsimopodi bideni had 10 arms, fins, and rows of...
A global team of researchers, including Yale scientists, is using advanced tagging to track the movement of individual animals across the world, an ambitious research project that is opening a new frontier in efforts to monitor biodiversity change and...
Larry Gall pulls out a glass-covered case containing a dozen blue morpho butterflies. He rocks the box back and forth to illustrate how the butterflies shimmer. The Yale students who’ve gathered around him all pull out their phones to snap photos.
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A new, Yale-led study unlocks the science behind a key ingredient — namely oxygen — in some of the world’s most violent volcanoes.
The research offers a new model for understanding the oxidation state of arc magmas, the lavas that form some volcanoes,...
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 boost the uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, a new Yale-led study of...