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Tuesday, April 5, 2022

T. rex hunting and feeding habits may explain short arm length, study finds

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Kevin Padian presents an explanation for why the T. rex had short arms.

A new hypothesis for the evolution of T. rex’s short arms was formulated by Kevin Padian, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of integrative biology and curator of paleontology at the UC Museum of Paleontology. 
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Research & Ideas

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

UC Museum of Paleontology team develops global change curriculum

A team from the UC Museum of Paleontology spent five years developing a series of K-12 teaching modules that were recently made available online to help students understand climate change through a global lens.
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Research & Ideas

Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Fossil

Giant birds lived far earlier than previously estimated, study reveals

A study published Oct. 26 revealed that previously discovered giant “bony-toothed” birds lived much earlier than scientists previously estimated.
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Homecoming 2019

Friday, October 18, 2019

Homecoming events to boost your love for UC Berkeley

Homecoming weekend is here, and we want to make sure you are prepared to experience some of the very best that UC Berkeley has to offer.
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Research & Ideas

Sunday, September 22, 2019

UC Berkeley researchers find extreme diversity and parasitism in squat lobster fossils

UC Berkeley researchers found extreme diversity and parasitism in the largest known collection of Jurassic squat lobster specimens, according to Adiël Klompmaker, co-author of the study and a postdoctoral scholar at the UC Museum of Paleontology.
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Campus

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

‘Maybe if I just put a beard on my face, people would listen to me’: The Bearded Lady Project premieres at Lawrence Hall of Science

The Bearded Lady Project was started in 2014 by Ellen Currano with the goal of whimsically upending the gender disparity within paleontology.
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Research & Ideas

Monday, April 23, 2018

UC Berkeley acquires more than 1,500 fossils for analysis

Researchers at the UC Museum of Paleontology, or UCMP, at Berkeley have been given more than 1,500 specimens — including 25 whale skulls — that were discovered at the Calaveras Dam.
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Obituary

Thursday, April 12, 2018

‘The quintessential academic’: UC Berkeley professor emeritus of geography Roger Byrne dies at 78

During his time on campus, Byrne established the Quaternary Paleoecology Lab and was an associate curator with the UC Museum of Paleontology, or UCMP.
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Research & Ideas

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

UC Berkeley researchers find mammal extinction may have affected current ecosystem

In a study published Monday, researchers, including one from UC Berkeley, discovered that the extinction of large land mammals near the end of the Ice Age had permanent effects on the Earth’s ecosystem.
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Research & Ideas

Sunday, October 4, 2015

Campus research finds meteorite increased volcanic eruptions that contributed to dinosaur extinction

In a paper published Friday in Science magazine, UC Berkeley researchers came closer to settling a scientific debate over what killed the dinosaurs billions of years ago.
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