Prehistoric Mammal News

Posted September 21, 2012:

• Naked Mole-Rats May Hold Clues to Pain Relief

Posted September 17, 2012:

• Whales Fall Through the Research Net: Global Populations of Marine Mammals Observed Far Too Little

Posted September 14, 2012:

• Researchers Find Our Inner Reptile Hearts

Posted September 13, 2012:

• Fruit Flies Reveal New Evolutionary Link for Studying Human Health: How They Control Body Temperature Through Circadian Rhythm

Posted August 27, 2012:

• Selective Imprinting: How the Wallaby Controls Growth of Its Young
• Fossil Skeleton of Strange, Ancient Digging Mammal Clears Up 30-Year-Old Evolutionary Debate

Posted August 20, 2012:

• Sex and the Female Brain: Protein in Semen Acts on Female Brain to Prompt Ovulation

Posted August 14, 2012:

• Widespread Local 'Extinctions' in Tropical Forest ‘remnants’

Posted August 7, 2012:

• Shedding New Light on How Jaws Evolve

Posted July 26, 2012:

• The Fin Whale, Under More Threat in the Mediterranean Than Thought

Posted July 23, 2012:

• New Species of Ancient Rodents Hint at What Could Be World's Oldest Grasslands

Posted July 11, 2012:

• Giant Fossil Turtle from Colombia Round Like Car Tire

Posted July 6, 2012:

• Zebrafish Reveal Promising Process for Healing Spinal Cord Injury

Posted July 3, 2012:

• Diving Shrews: Heat Before You Leap

Posted June 28, 2012:

• Dinosaurs Were Warm-Blooded Reptiles: Mammal Bone Study Sheds Light on Dinosaur Physiology

Posted June 22, 2012:

• First Paternity Study of Southern Right Whales Finds Local Fathers Most Successful

Posted June 21, 2012:

• Luteal Development and Pregnancy in Elephants

Posted June 13, 2012:

• Inner Ear May Hold Key to Ancient Primate Behavior

Posted June 12, 2012:

• Woolly Mammoth Extinction Has Lessons for Modern Climate Change

Posted June 6, 2012:

• Dinosaurs Lighter Than Previously Thought

Posted May 24, 2012:

• Why Humans Don't Smell as Well as Other Mammals: No New Neurons in the Human Olfactory Bulb

Posted May 21, 2012:

• Rare Neurons Linked to Empathy and Self-Awareness Discovered in Monkey Brains

Posted May 14, 2012:

• Nearly One Tenth of Hemisphere's Mammals Unlikely to Outrun Climate Change

Posted May 8, 2012:

• Built-in Ear Plugs: Whales May Turn Down Their Hearing Sensitivity When Warned of an Impending Loud Noise

Posted May 7, 2012:

• BPA Effects Seen in Monkey Mammary Glands

Posted May 3, 2012:

• Early North Americans Lived With Extinct Giant Beasts, Study Shows
• Insect Glands May Illuminate Human Fertilization Process

Posted May 2, 2012:

• Eye Size Determined by Maximum Running Speed in Mammals

Posted May 1, 2012:

• Jurassic Pain: Giant 'Flea-Like' Insects Plagued Dinosaurs 165 Million Years Ago

Posted April 25, 2012:

• Evolution on an Island: Fossils Show Secret for a Longer Life

Posted April 23, 2012:

• Diversity Aided Mammals’ Survival Over Deep Time
• Leeches Are DNA Bloodhounds in the Jungle
• How Ancient Viruses Became Genomic 'Superspreaders'

Posted April 17, 2012:

• Egg-Laying Beginning of the End for Dinosaurs

Posted April 16, 2012:

• Evolutionary History of What Mammals Eat: Some Groups of Mammals Have Changed Their Feeding Strategies Over Time

Posted April 11, 2012:

• Exotic Manure Is Sure to Lure the Dung Connoisseur
• Oldest-Ever Reptile Embryos Unearthed

Posted March 27, 2012:

• Size Matters: Large Marine Protected Areas Work for Dolphins

Posted March 16, 2012:

• Increase in Arctic Shipping Is Risk to Marine Mammals

Posted March 14, 2012:

• Some Mammals Used Highly Complex Teeth to Compete With Dinosaurs

Posted March 8, 2012:

• Multiple Species of Seacows Once Coexisted

Posted March 7, 2012:

• Teaching Fat Cells to Burn Calories: New Target Against Obesity Involves Brown Fat

Posted February 29, 2012:

• Two New Extinct Camel Species Discovered at Panama Canal Excavation

Posted February 27, 2012:

• Ice Age Coyotes Were Supersized Compared to Coyotes Today, Fossil Study Reveals

Posted February 23, 2012:

• Earliest Horses Show Past Global Warming Affected Body Size of Mammals

Posted February 21, 2012:

• Irish Mammals Under Serious Threat from 'Invasional Meltdown'
• Iconic Marine Mammals Are 'Swimming in Sick Seas' of Terrestrial Pathogens

Posted February 19, 2012:

• Yosemite's Alpine Chipmunks Take Genetic Hit from Climate Change

Posted February 16, 2012:

• Goat Kids Can Develop Accents

Posted February 3, 2012:

• A Battle of the Vampires, 20 Million Years Ago?

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