Media

2022

Vox: The animals that may exist in a million years, imagined by biologists

“In the meantime, while it’s heartening to imagine how different species might bounce back in millions of years, “you don’t want to stop investing in the life that’s around us today,” said Mychajliw, the Middlebury paleoecologist. “There’s a lot we can do right now to ensure that we protect species, protect their genetic diversity, and protect their ability to respond to change.””

2021

Newsday: Catching up with 3 former LI science contest finalists

2020

Gizmodo: Paleontologists predict what future animals might look like.

Gizmodo: Fossilized vomit and feces are delighting paleontologists.

2019

University of the West Indies Today: Asphalt Giants: paleontologists bring home Trinidad’s tar pit fossil legacy.

Monterey County Weekly: The California grizzly has been extinct for a generation. Now researchers are considering whether to try and bring it back.

2018

Science News: Society names 50 Advocates to mentor underserved students

Los Angeles Magazine: Can Angelenos and Coyotes Coexist?

NHM Research & Collections News: California’s Grizzly Past

Monterey Herald: PG museum to play key role in grizzly research project.

2017

Newsweek:Giant Caribbean sloths disappeared in extinction that also killed off monkeys and giant rodents.

El Periódico: La llegada de los humanos al Caribe causó una gran extinción de mamíferos.

LiveScience: Humans Doomed Caribbean’s ‘Lost World’ of Ancient Mammals.

New Scientist: Human arrivals wiped out the Caribbean’s giant ground sloths.

The Scientist, Image of the Day: The Last Sloth.

Gizmodo: How This ‘Slow,’ ‘Clumsy,’ and Seriously Weird Animal Has Outsmarted Death.

International Business Times: How the cute, furry and highly venomous Solenodon survived extinction against all odds. 

Daily Mail: Extinction mystery solved? Study of 1,500-year-old Jamaican monkey bone fragments suggests that HUMANS killed off the species.

2016

Diario Libre: Hallan fósil de mono extinto en Parque Nacional Jaragua.

Popular Science: Humans spread over South America like an invasive species. 

Science Magazine News: Humans spread through South America like an invasive species. 

IFL Science: Humans Colonizing South America Resembled Invasive Species.

Daily Mail: Did humans conquer South America in waves? Prehistoric settlers spread like an ‘invasive species’ across the area on two occasions 8,000 years apart.

2014

Stanford Report: Stanford students create interactive tool that tells the story of global change.