Highlights of press coverage of work from the lab.
- 2026
Our Science paper led by Finote Gijsman, showing that losing elephants and other megaherbivores sets off a chain reaction starting with dung beetles, was covered by Princeton University (opens in a new tab), UF News (opens in a new tab), UC Merced (opens in a new tab) and EurekAlert! (opens in a new tab)
- 2024
The Guardian: Todd talks with Nicola Davis about how an invasive ant changed the way lions hunt: “Lions making fewer zebra kills due to ‘chain reaction’ involving invasive ants” (opens in a new tab).
- 2024
Podcast: Todd and Corinna Riginos are interviewed on Scientific American’s Science Quickly: “These Invasive Ants Are Changing How Lions Hunt” (opens in a new tab).
- 2024
Our Science paper on how the big-headed ant invasion ripples through the savanna food web, all the way to lions and their prey, was also covered by The Washington Post (opens in a new tab), CBS News (opens in a new tab), NPR’s Short Wave (opens in a new tab), Science Friday (opens in a new tab), PRI’s The World (opens in a new tab), Scientific American (opens in a new tab), Popular Science (opens in a new tab), Discover (opens in a new tab), Axios (opens in a new tab), The East African (opens in a new tab), London’s Natural History Museum (opens in a new tab) and UF News (opens in a new tab), as well as The Atlantic, USA Today, The Economist, Forbes, Le Monde and The Independent.
- 2023
A global analysis in Science showing that herbivory limits the success of vegetation restoration was covered by EurekAlert!, Anthropocene, ScienceDaily and Mongabay.
- 2018
Tiny scale insects help trees avoid elephants. Coverage in ScienceDaily (opens in a new tab) and Phys.org (opens in a new tab).
- 2015
Our paper on the sixth mass extinction was covered by The Washington Post (opens in a new tab), The New York Times, the BBC, USA Today (opens in a new tab) and more than 100 other outlets, and named one of Discover magazine's top 100 science stories of 2015.
- 2014
Our Science paper on how large carnivores make savanna trees less thorny was featured in The New York Times (opens in a new tab) and on BBC News (opens in a new tab).
- 2014
Our work on the disruption of the ant-acacia mutualism by invasive ants was covered by Science (opens in a new tab) and The New York Times (opens in a new tab).
- 2013
We filmed with David Attenborough for Micromonsters 3D, shown on Sky TV in the UK.
- 2012
Seifert and colleagues' work on skin shedding and regeneration in African spiny mice, published in Nature, was covered by the BBC (opens in a new tab), the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Nature (opens in a new tab), New Scientist and others.
- 2010
Can ants protect trees from elephants? Our Current Biology paper was covered by The New York Times (opens in a new tab), the Los Angeles Times, the BBC, The Daily Telegraph, Scientific American and Discover.
- 2010
Our PLoS Biology paper on how termite mounds govern savanna productivity was featured in The New York Times, National Geographic, USA Today, ABC News and on CBC's Quirks and Quarks.
- 2008
Our Science cover story on how the loss of large herbivores breaks down the ant-acacia mutualism was covered by The New York Times, NPR's All Things Considered, the BBC, Voice of America, National Geographic, Scientific American, New Scientist, Nature News, the Associated Press and more than 100 newspapers worldwide.