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Performance trade-offs define a fundamental dental dichotomy in mammals
Tribosphenic molar on the cover of Science

Led by FAVE Lab NSF/Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow Narimane Chatar, alongside Huelsenbeck Lab PhD student Levi Raskin, former IB visiting scholars Alex Ramos and Melvin Vankelst, and IB professor Jack Tseng, the team published a paper on mammalian dental evolution. Read the full story, featured as the cover article in Science.

New fossils upend catastrophist narrative that flowering plants flourished only after dinosaur extinction
Examples of seeds and fruits from the Dori’s Tuff flora of the Jose Creek Formation in New Mexico. The photos show tiny seeds (upper left) and a group of large fruits (right).

IB professor Cindy Looy, grad student Jaemin Lee, former doctoral student Dori Contreras, and former undergrad student James Saulsbury reported that Dori's Tuff flora contained large fruits from flowering trees, suggesting that animals were eating larger seeds produced by angiosperms 75 million years ago. Read the full story in Berkeley News.

Newly identified fossil sheds light on evolutionary history of saber-toothed cats
A collection of 3D scans of fossil sabertooth skulls from various groups

Postdoctoral fellow Narimane Chatar is researching carnivore molars in the lab of IB professor Jack Tseng. Chatar discovers the cranial and mandibular remains of Adelphailurus kansensis and compares them to Smilodon, the most recognizable saber-toothed cat. Read the full story in Berkeley News.

IB faculty and doctoral student receive W.M. Keck Foundation grant >
IB alum's research on cover of Nature >
Scientists split gentoo penguins into four species, one totally new to science. Three of them are already threatened. >

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