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Scientists Discover First Swimming Mammal From The Jurassic
February 24, 2006 — A team of international researchers have discovered a new species of primitive mammal capable of swimming in the Middle Jurassic lake beds of China. In a cover article published in Science, the team ... > full story -
Monitoring Baleen Whales With Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
February 21, 2006 — Like robots of the deep, autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs, are growing in number and use in the oceans to perform scientific missions ranging from monitoring climate change to mapping the deep ... > full story -
New Fossil Find In New Mexico Named After Artist Georgia O'Keeffe
February 20, 2006 — Two Columbia scientists have discovered the fossil of a toothless crocodile relative that looks like a six-foot-long, two-legged dinosaur, but is actually a distant cousin of today's alligators and ... > full story -
Scientists Sequence DNA Of Woolly Mammoth
December 21, 2005 — A team of experts in ancient DNA from McMaster University (Canada) and genome researchers from Penn State University (USA) have obtained the first genomic sequences from a woolly mammoth, a mammal ... > full story -
Unexpected Finding: Some Dinosaurs Grew Slower In Hard Times
December 19, 2005 — Palaeontologists from the University of Bonn report on an intriguing diagnosis in the 16 December issue of the journal Science. A dinosaur which they have examined was apparently able to vary the ... > full story -
Marine Biology Mystery Solved: Function Of 'Unicorn' Whale's 8-Foot Tooth Discovered
December 14, 2005 — Harvard School of Dental Medicine researcher Martin Nweeia has answered a marine science question that has eluded the scientific community for hundreds of years: why does the narwhal, or "unicorn," ... > full story -
Global Warming Dramatically Changed Ancient Forests
November 10, 2005 — Palmettos in Pennsylvania? Magnolias in Minnesota? The migration of subtropical plants to northern climates may not be too far-fetched if future global warming patterns mirror a monumental shift that ... > full story -
Muskox Suffered Loss Of Genetic Diversity At Pleistocene/Holocene Transition
October 6, 2005 — The tundra muskox, one of the few large northern mammals to have survived to the present day, saw its genetic diversity decrease greatly at the end of the Pleistocene period, around 10,000 years ... > full story -
Oxygen Increase Caused Mammals To Triumph, Researchers Say
October 3, 2005 — The first, high resolution continuous record of oxygen concentration in the earth's atmosphere shows that a sharp rise in oxygen about 50 million years ago gave mammals the evolutionary boost they ... > full story -
Mouse Genome Much More Complex Than Expected
September 3, 2005 — More than 100 scientists from Australia, Asia, Europe and the US have been probing the genome of the mouse in a joint study lasting several years. Their results in some aspects have completely ... > full story
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