Topic: Richard Prum
Richard Prum suffered a bad break for someone who studies birds for a living: "I live in an acoustically flat world," says Prum. For the past decade or so, Prum has combined the studies of evolution and development to analyze feathers as ...
The rich, shimmering colors of some butterfly wings are produced not by pigments, but by a special geometric formation of cells, a new study suggests. A double gyroid is a special type of layered gyroid. "The double gyroid is found in a ...
Yipes, feathered dinosaur sported stripes, Mohawk-style crest, new report says Some dinosaurs had russet-colored feathers, and one jazzy specimen had a Mohawk crest and stripes, researchers say in the first reports to confidently assign colors to dinosaurs."This was no crow or sparrow, ...
Last week, researchers announced that they had been able to place, for the first time, original colors on a dinosaur-painting in striking stripes on Sinosauropteryx's tail based on new evidence of pigment particles. "This was no crow or sparrow, but a creature ...
Richard Prum, a biologist at Yale University and the director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, is one of the leading experts on the evolution of feathers and the relationship between birds and their dinosaur ancestors Recently, Prum and his ...
Richard Prum suffered a bad break for someone who studies birds for a living: "I live in an acoustically flat world," says Prum. For the past decade or so, Prum has combined the studies of evolution and development to analyze feathers as ...
List of 2009 MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant' recipientsThe following 24 fellows each will receive $500,000 over the next five years from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: _Maneesh Agrawala, 37, computer vision technologist, Berkeley, Calif. _Esther Duflo, 36, Cambridge, Mass. ...
The male-only nest care system of some birds may have its evolutionary origins in theropod dinosaur behavior. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Peabody Museum of Natural History, Post Office Box 208105, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
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Richard Prum, 2009 MacArthur Fellow
Ornithologist Richard Prum was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2009 ...2009-09-21 -
Feathered Dinosaur Plumage
Professors Richard Prum, the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ecology ...2010-02-10 -
Dinosaur Feathers
Yale Scientists First to Reveal Flamboyant Colors of a Dinosaurs ...2010-02-05
