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Michigan News: Mass extinction 66 million years ago triggered rapid evolution of bird genomes

“By studying the DNA of living birds, we can try to detect patterns of genetic sequences that changed just after one of the most important events in Earth’s history,” said lead author Jake Berv, who completed the study as a Fellow in EEB.

- Morgan Sherburne

Tags: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The New York Times: Dead Monkeys Are Falling From Trees Amid Brutal Heat in Mexico

“In general, howler monkeys are very resilient to those conditions and can survive for long periods of time,” said Liliana Cortés Ortiz, a primatologist at the University of Michigan.

- Manuela Andreoni

Tags: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Liliana Cortés Ortiz

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