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Relicts of the Bug-men
What are bug-men and how did their existence benefit UCMP? Watch and listen to this slideshow about an obscure link recently discovered by UCMP micropaleontologist Ken Finger. Click cover page below to...
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Dispatches from Clear Lake, part 1
UCMP's Cindy Looy is leading a project to collect 130,000 years worth of sediment data from Clear Lake in order to better understand how life has adapted to climate change. Along the way, members of...
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Barnosky on Earth's tipping points in Nature
Twenty-two scientists including lead author Tony Barnosky urge us to understand the danger of global environmental tipping points in their review paper in the June 7 issue of Nature. They examine data...
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A collaborative grant to examine what triggers megafauna extinction
Tony Barnosky has received an NSF grant that will support a highly collaborative research program to test the synergistic effects of climate change and human population growth in magnifying extinction...
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Plants have a lot to tell us about the past …
Jeff Benca is a welcome addition to the Department of Integrative Biology and UCMP’s highly active paleobotany group as a member of Cindy Looy’s lab. However, Jeff also spends a lot of his time “up...
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Caldwell's rare octopus research makes headlines
Roy Caldwell has been working with Richard Ross of the California Academy of Sciences to study a rare, beautiful, and so far unnamed species of octopus. Their work, along with some of Roy's photos, is...
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The Looy Lab paleo detectives
Solving the mysteries of the past and present one rock at a time East of the Berkeley campus, we see the beautiful, green Berkeley Hills, the golden letter "C" and a somewhat classy-looking,...
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The Looy Lab paleo detectives: Dori and Cindy at the NMNH
A Cissites harkerianus leaf from Ellsworth County, Kansas, collected by Charles Sternberg in the late 1800s, and identified by Leo Lesquereux. Specimen from the Department of Paleobiology, National...
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Werning blogs at PLOS about the fossils of the Sierra Nevada
In her latest post over at the Public Library of Science blog The Integrative Paleontologists Sarah Werning writes about about what the fossil history of California can teach us about climate change....
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Warmer climates can lead to big lizards
A mounted modern lizard alongside the fossil jaw bones. Pat Holroyd and co-authors describe a new species of giant lizard in the latest issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The fossil jaw...
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Marshall shows terrestrial mammal extinction due to Red Queen with new work...
By studying 19 groups of Cenozoic mammals Charles Marshall and Tiago Quental tested and confirmed the Red Queen hypothesis. Red Queen is the hypothesis that states that groups must continue to adapt...
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Werning co-authors paper on growth in Parasaurolophus
Artist's restoration of the head of "Joe," the baby Parasaurolophus. Illustration by Tyler Keillor.Recent Ph.D. grad Sarah Werning, now in a postdoctoral position at the State University of New York at...
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