This is a selection of news/blog articles and podcasts featuring our work
Miscellaneous
- NOVA: Ocean invaders
- Unexplainable: The animals that may exist in a million years, imagined by biologists
- People Behind the Science Podcast: Dr. Sharlene Santana: Determining the Drivers of Diversity in Bats and Other Mammals
- Journal of Experimental Biology – Conversation: Early-career researchers: an interview with Sharlene Santana
- UW Today: Grant will help Native American undergraduates attend first scientific meeting
- Diverse Introspectives: A conversation with Sharlene Santana
- Arkive: Spotlight on: Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Sharlene E. Santana
Bats in general
- UW News: Bats are everywhere, but they get special attention around Halloween
- CW11-KSTW: Halloween’s spookiest mammals are keeping the local environment healthy
- Here Be Monsters: The bats that stay
- The Varsity: Blind as a bat
- Columns Magazine: Nuts about bats
Bat dental morphology
- UW News: Fruit, nectar, bugs and blood: How bat teeth and jaws evolved for a diverse dinnertime
- BBC Earth News: Sharp teeth aid bats’ fruit diets
- BBC Mundo: La dieta determina los dientes de los murciélagos
- Science Daily: Biologists use GPS to ‘map’ bats teeth
- Smithsonian Science: From chewing tough insects to soft fruit
- Newswise: Using GPS to map bat teeth, explore diet adaptations
Bat-plant interactions and coevolution
- UW News: ‘More pepper, please’: New study analyzes role of scent compounds in the coevolution of bats and pepper plants
- Pass the pepper, please: The coevolution of pepper plants and bats
- The Daily: UW researchers study how bats and plants evolved together
- Folha de S. Paulo: Morcegos são cruciais para a saúde dos ecossistemas em que vivem
Carnivorous bats
- Recent Paper Decent Puzzle podcast. Episode 11: Carnivorous Bats
- UW Today: Skull specializations allow bats to feast on their fellow vertebrates
- The Daily: UW researchers chew on the mysteries of vertebrate-eating bats
- Smithsonian: The world’s carnivorous bats are emerging from the dark
- Phys.Org: Study reveals traits and evolutionary history of carnivorous bats
- Futurity: Special skulls let some bats chow down on bony prey
San Juan Islands bats
Phyllostomid diversification
- Nature News: Big bites help bats diversify
- Science Daily: Studying bat skulls, evolutionary biologists discover how species evolve
- LiveScience: Short snouts gave bats a forceful bite
Wrinkle-faced bats
- Nature News: Ugly bats are built to bite
- BBC News: Bizarre-looking bat’s strong bite
Mammal skull evolution
Fieldwork
- The search for the bog lemming in the North Cascades
- Surveying bats in Grenada
- Small and fierce: Analyzing bat bite force
Primate faces & mammal coloration
- Science Magazine: Why predators have such crazy faces
- The Daily – University of Washington: Not just a pretty face
- Discover Magazine: How evolution made the monkey face
- Science Magazine: ScienceShot: Why so many monkey faces?; More than just a pretty face
- Nature: Social life shapes primate faces
- Discovery News: Monkey faces tell all; Why monkeys and apes have colorful faces
- Science Daily: Evolution is written all over your face; Biologists find an evolutionary Facebook for monkeys and apes
- Scientific American: More than just pretty faces
- American Scientist: Social needs help sculpt primate faces
- BBC News: Monkeys’ many faces
- BBC Mundo: ¿Por qué los rostros de los monos son tan diferentes?
- MSNBC: Funny facial features tell monkeys who’s who
- Futurity: Color patterns of monkey faces reflect social order
- Huffington Post: Peculiar reason primates have such colorful faces
- Slate: The amazing complexity of primates’ faces
- NBC News: Here’s why monkeys and apes have colorful faces