Press for: Field, D.J., Gauthier, J.A., King, B.L., Pisani, D., Lyson, T.R., Peterson, K.J. 2014. Toward consilience in reptile phylogeny: miRNAs support an archosaur, not lepidosaur affinity for turtles. Evolution & Development. doi: 10.1111/ede.1208







Press for: Field, D.J., Lynner, C., Brown, C., Darroch, S.A.F. 2013. Skeletal correlates for body mass estimation in modern and fossil flying birds. PLoS ONE 8(11): e82000. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082000.






Press for: McNamara, M.E., Briggs, D.E.G., Orr, P.J., Field, D.J., Wang, Z. 2013. Experimental maturation of feathers: implications for reconstructions of fossil feather colour. Biology Letters. 9: 20130184.







Press for: Field, D.J., D’Alba, L., Vinther, J., Webb, S.M., Gearty, W., Shawkey, M.D. 2013. Melanin concentration gradients in modern and fossil feathers. PLoS ONE 8(3): e59451. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059451






Press for: Longrich N.R., Field, D.J. 2012. Torosaurus is not Triceratops: Ontogeny in chasmosaurine ceratopsids as a case study in dinosaur taxonomy. PLoS ONE 7(2): e32623. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.003263.










Press for: Longrich, N.R., Tokaryk, T., Field, D.J. 2011. Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108 (37):15253-15257.









Press for: Field, D.J., Ben-Zvi, M., Lin, S.C., Goldbogen, J.A., Shadwick, R.E. 2011. Convergent evolution in rorqual whales and pelicans driven by similar feeding mechanics. Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology 294:1273-1282.





Press for: Field, D.J., Campbell-Malone, R., Goldbogen, J.A., Shadwick, R. 2010. Quantitative computed tomography of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) mandibles: mechanical implications for rorqual lunge-feeding. Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology 293:1240-1247.

   











                             











































Press and Outreach

Yale Daily News

LiveScience.com

LiveScience.com

New York Times

Yale News

EGU

PLoS BLOGS

As an engaging, easily accessible topic, natural history research provides ideal opportunities for communicating science to the general public. In addition to delivering public lectures and performing other outreach activities, I’ve occasionally had the chance to communicate my research to the

popular press. These are links to some media pieces covering zoological research I’ve been involved with.

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Interview about being first recipient of the Wake Award

“Flying dinosaurs and flightless birds”

Yale interview about 2014 W.D. Hamilton Award

Selected Other Interviews and Media Experience

Source: Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

“This bird had the largest wingspan ever”

NPR interview about Ksepka 2014 (PNAS)

    Interview with the AAAS about bird paleontology research at the Yale Peabody Museum.

    Interview with the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) about the Torosaurus/Triceratops debate.

“Making the Skeletons Dance”

Blog by Dr. John Bates of the Field Museum, Chicago.

Source: The Field Museum

Source: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

“The incredible shrinking dinosaur”

Christian Science Monitor on Lee et al. 2014 (Science)

Source: steppe.org

Yale Scientific Magazine

Interview about the evolution of bird flight

Everything you wanted to know about turtles

Extended NPR interview about Field et al. 2014

Source: NPR

“Inferring the Origin of Avian Flight”

iTunesU lecture from the Smithsonian on the origin of bird flight

Press for: Feo, T.J., Field, D.J., Prum, R.O. 2015. Barb geometry of asymmetrical feathers reveals a transitional morphology in the evolution of avian flight. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282: 20142864.

“How did birds come to be?”

Hartford Courant 2015

Press for: Field, D.J., LeBlanc, A., Gau, A., Behlke, A. D. 2015. Pelagic neonatal fossils support viviparity and precocial life history of Cretaceous mosasaurs. Palaeontology. doi: 10.1111/pala.12165

Julius Csotonyi

Press for: Hsiang, A.Y., Field, D.J., et al. 2015. The origin of snakes: Revealing the ecology, behavior, and evolutionary history of early snakes using genomics, phenomics, and the fossil record. BMC Evolutionary Biology.

Julius Csotonyi

Press for: Bever, G.S., Lyson, T.R., Field, D.J., Bhullar, B.A-S. 2015. Evolutionary origin of the turtle skull. Nature. 525: 239-242.

Mick Ellison

Press for: Prum, R.O., Berv, J.S., Dornburg, A., Field, D.J., Townsend, J.P, Lemmon, E.M., Lemmon, A.R. A comprehensive phylogeny of birds using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature15697.

Yale News

Yale News

Yale News

“Live (on tape) from the Peabody”

Connecticut NPR (Colin McEnroe Show)-live panel

discussion on dinosaurs recorded in the Great Hall of

Dinosaurs at the Yale Peabody Museum

Source: Yale Peabody Museum