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Largest North America Climate Change In 65 Million Years, Study Shows
February 7, 2007 — The largest climate change in central North America since the age of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, a temperature drop of nearly 15 degrees Fahrenheit, is documented within the fossilized teeth ... > full story -
Scientists Discover New Species Of Distinctive Cloud-Forest Rodent
January 24, 2007 — A strikingly unusual animal was recently discovered in the cloud-forests of Peru. The large rodent is about the size of a squirrel. The nocturnal, climbing rodent is beautiful yet strange looking, ... > full story -
Paleontologists Discover Most Primitive Primate Skeleton
January 23, 2007 — The earliest branches of primate evolution are more ancient by 10 million years than previous studies estimated, according to an article featured in the Proceedings of the National Academy of ... > full story -
Big Vegetarian Mammals Can Play A Critical Role In Maintaining Healthy Ecosystems, Study Finds
January 16, 2007 — Removing large herbivorous mammals from the African savanna can cause a dramatic shift in the relative abundance of species throughout the food chain, according to scientists from Stanford ... > full story -
Why Are Lions Not As Big As Elephants?
January 15, 2007 — A simple theoretical model provides a framework to understand carnivore energy budgets and reveals insights into the evolution of body size in mammalian ... > full story -
Contrary To Common Wisdom, Scientist Discovers Some Mammals Can Smell Objects Under Water
December 20, 2006 — A Vanderbilt researcher has discovered that some stealthy mammals have been doing something heretofore thought impossible -- using the sense of smell under ... > full story -
Fossil Discovery Turns Scientific Theory On Its Head
December 19, 2006 — An international team led by University of Adelaide palaeontologist Trevor Worthy has discovered a unique, primitive type of land mammal that lived at least 16 million years ago on New Zealand. The ... > full story -
Small Furry Mammal Was Capable Of Gliding Flight Possibly Before Birds
December 18, 2006 — An American Museum of Natural History paleontologist and his colleagues have named a new order of mammals based on their description of a fossil of a bat- or squirrel-sized Mesozoic mammal, called ... > full story -
Tiny Bones Rewrite Textbooks: First New Zealand Land Mammal Fossil
December 13, 2006 — Small but remarkable fossils found in New Zealand will prompt a major rewrite of prehistory textbooks, showing for the first time that the so-called "land of birds" was once home to mammals as ... > full story -
Small, Smaller, Smallest: The Plight Of The Vaquita
December 9, 2006 — Research published in the academic journal Mammal Review has uncovered the missing link in the depleting population of the vaquita. With a body less than 1.5 m long, the vaquita is the smallest ... > full story
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