November 30, 2022
UC paleontologist Joshua Miller disputes timeline that uses environmental DNA to suggest mammoths died out more recently than we knew.
July 12, 2023
Extinct hippos that once roamed Madagascar lived in forests rather than the open grasslands preferred by common hippos on mainland Africa, researchers at the University of Cincinnati discovered.
July 14, 2023
Earth.com and other science media highlight UC's discoveries about extinct hippos in Madagascar. An isotopic analysis found that dwarf hippos were not grazers of grasslands but instead preferred sedges and leaves in forests. This demonstrated the importance of forests to endemic wildlife on the island.
June 29, 2023
UC Associate Professor Dylan Ward explains to WVXU why some forests have terrain that looks like a rumpled blanket over an unmade bed. The answer: limestone sinkholes that created small depressions in the ground.
June 28, 2023
UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Amy Townsend-Small tells NPR's Here & Now program that a relatively small percentage of wells are responsible for most of the methane spilling into the atmosphere from leaks.
April 10, 2023
An international team of researchers say new evidence suggests a mass extinction 260 million years ago was not a single event but two separated by nearly 3 million years, both caused by the same culprit: massive volcanic eruptions.
April 10, 2023
The BBC highlights a study by University of Cincinnati geologist Thomas Algeo that examined an ice age 635 million years ago.
March 20, 2023
Five graduates of UC’s College of Arts and Sciences were recognized with alumni awards during the A Night with A&S annual ceremony earlier this month. As community leaders, philanthropists and professional pioneers, the impact of these alumni can be felt at the college, university, state and national levels. Also at the event A&S scholarship recipients were celebrated, and had the opportunity to meet with the donors whose contributions helped make their college experience possible. Meet the 2023 UC College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Alumni:
April 5, 2023
Scientists say the Marinoan Ice Age was one of the most extreme in the planet’s history, creating glacial ice that persisted for 15 million years. But new evidence collected in China suggests the Earth was not completely frozen — at least not toward the end of the ice age.
January 24, 2023
UC paleontologist Joshua Miller tells Forbes that environmental DNA can persist for centuries or even millennia, making it unreliable as a barometer for dating extinction events.