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Naming Evolution's Winners And Losers
August 24, 2009 — Mammals and many species of birds and fish are among "evolution's winners," while crocodiles, alligators and a reptile cousin of snakes known as the tuatara are among its losers, according to a new ... > full story -
Climate-Caused Biodiversity Booms And Busts In Ancient Plants And Mammals
August 10, 2009 — A period of global warming from 53 million to 47 million years ago strongly influenced plants and animals, spurring a biodiversity boom in western North America, researchers ... > full story -
Fossil Tooth Remains Of Extinct Rodent Species Discovered: Oldest Find Within This Genus
August 6, 2009 — Scientists have discovered an extinct rodent species, based on fossil tooth remains found in Alborache, Valencia. Eomyops noeliae, from the Eomyidae family, represents the oldest find within this ... > full story -
Discovery Of Elephants' Oldest Known Relative
July 30, 2009 — Paleontologists have discovered one of the oldest modern ungulates related to the elephant ... > full story -
Fossilized Dung Balls Reveal Secret Ecology Of Lost World
July 20, 2009 — A new study of 30-million-year-old fossil 'mega-dung' from extinct giant South American mammals reveals evidence of complex ecological interactions and theft of dung-beetles' food stores by other ... > full story -
Giant Moa Rebuilt Using Ancient DNA From Prehistoric Feathers
July 2, 2009 — Scientists have performed the first DNA-based reconstruction of the giant extinct moa bird, using prehistoric feathers recovered from caves and rock shelters in New ... > full story -
Natural-Born Divers And The Molecular Traces Of Evolution
June 30, 2009 — When the ancestors of present marine mammals returned to the oceans, their physiology had to adapt radically. Scientists have been studying how myoglobin, the molecule responsible for delivering ... > full story -
Mammoths Survived In Britain Until 14,000 Years Ago, New Discovery Suggests
June 18, 2009 — Research finally proves that bones found in Shropshire, England, provide the most geologically recent evidence of woolly mammoths in Northwestern Europe. Analysis of both the bones and the ... > full story -
Fossil Bone Bed Helps Reconstruct Life Along California's Ancient Coastline
June 10, 2009 — Sharktooth Hill near Bakersfield, Calif., is the home of the most extensive marine bone bed in the world, a 100-square-mile layer of shark, seal, ray, whale, turtle and fish bones. Researchers have ... > full story -
Mobile DNA Elements In Woolly Mammoth Genome Give New Clues To Mammalian Evolution
June 9, 2009 — The woolly mammoth died out several thousand years ago, but the genetic material they left behind is yielding new clues about the evolution of mammals. Scientists have now analyzed the mammoth genome ... > full story -
Ancient Mammals Shifted Diets As Climate Changed
June 3, 2009 — A new study shows mammals change their dietary niches based on climate-driven environmental changes, contradicting a common assumption that species maintain their niches despite global ... > full story -
High Arctic Mammals Wintered In Darkness 53 Million Years Ago
June 1, 2009 — Ancestors of tapirs and ancient cousins of rhinos living above the Arctic Circle 53 million years ago endured six months of darkness each year in a far milder climate than today that featured lush, ... > full story
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