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Sean B. Carroll

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Sean B. Carroll is the Balo-Simon Endowed Chair and Distinguished University Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland. He founded and led HHMI Tangled Bank Studios from 2018 to 2023.

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Communication

More Than a Feeling

How awe and wonder transform science and you

October 17, 2025
Environment

The Mother of All Accidents

Odds are, if an asteroid hadn’t crashed into Earth, we wouldn’t be here.

April 21, 2021
Environment

The Ecologist Who Threw Starfish

Robert Paine showed us the surprising importance of predators.

March 7, 2016
Paleontology

It’s a Fishapod!

The story behind the discovery of the four-legged fish.

February 9, 2016
Paleontology

The Day the Mesozoic Died

How the story of the dinosaurs’ demise was uncovered.

January 13, 2016