As an independent student newspaper and the paper of record for the city of Berkeley, the Daily Cal has been communicating important updates during this pandemic. Your support is essential to maintaining this coverage.
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.
Read More…
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.
Read More…
A study published Oct. 26 revealed that previously discovered giant “bony-toothed” birds lived much earlier than scientists previously estimated.
Read More…
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.
Read More…
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.
Read More…
The Bearded Lady Project was started in 2014 by Ellen Currano with the goal of whimsically upending the gender disparity within paleontology.
Read More…
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.
Read More…
During his time on campus, Byrne established the Quaternary Paleoecology Lab and was an associate curator with the UC Museum of Paleontology, or UCMP.
Read More…
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.
Read More…
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.
Read More…
