Prehistoric Mammal News

Posted December 19, 2006:

• Fossil Discovery Turns Scientific Theory On Its Head

Posted December 18, 2006:

• Small Furry Mammal Was Capable Of Gliding Flight Possibly Before Birds

Posted December 14, 2006:

• Tiny Bones Rewrite Textbooks: First New Zealand Land Mammal Fossil

Posted October 23, 2006:

• New Dwarf Buffalo Discovered By Chance In The Philippines
• Researchers Give Name To Ancient Mystery Creature

Posted October 13, 2006:

• Does Missing Gene Point To Nocturnal Existence For Early Mammals?

Posted September 23, 2006:

• 'Killer' B Cells Demonstrate Evolutionary Link Between Fish And Mammal Immune Systems

Posted August 10, 2006:

• Paleontologist Discovers South American Mammal Fossils

Posted July 13, 2006:

• Tyrannosaur Survivorship -- Tough Times For Teens

Posted July 12, 2006:

• Large Dinosaurs Were Extremely Hot In Their Day, Study Finds

Posted July 11, 2006:

• Math And Fossils Resolve A Debate On Dinosaur Metabolism

Posted June 14, 2006:

• Retired Professor Captures A 'Living Fossil' -- Laotian Rock Rat Once Believed To Have Gone Extinct

Posted May 23, 2006:

• How Ancient Whales Lost Their Legs, Got Sleek And Conquered The Oceans

Posted May 5, 2006:

• Man May Have Caused Pre-historic Extinctions

Posted April 27, 2006:

• 'Banana-jawed' Fossil Mammal Linked To Rare Sound-producing Skill

Posted February 24, 2006:

• Scientists Discover First Swimming Mammal From The Jurassic

Posted February 21, 2006:

• New Fossil Find In New Mexico Named After Artist Georgia O'Keeffe

Posted December 21, 2005:

• Scientists Sequence DNA Of Woolly Mammoth

Posted December 19, 2005:

• Unexpected Finding: Some Dinosaurs Grew Slower In Hard Times

Posted December 14, 2005:

• Marine Biology Mystery Solved: Function Of 'Unicorn' Whale's 8-foot Tooth Discovered

Posted October 6, 2005:

• Muskox Suffered Loss Of Genetic Diversity At Pleistocene/Holocene Transition

Posted October 3, 2005:

• Oxygen Increase Caused Mammals To Triumph, Researchers Say

Posted August 5, 2005:

• Study Shows Big Game Hunters, Not Climate Change, Killed Off Sloths

Posted July 20, 2005:

• Ancient Diets Of Australian Birds Point To Big Ecosystem Changes

Posted July 10, 2005:

• Ancient Diets Of Australian Birds Point To Big Ecosystem Changes

Posted May 23, 2005:

• First Ever Fossil Of Sleeping Dinosaur Found In China

Posted April 1, 2005:

• University Of Florida Discovery Raises Questions About Origin Of African Mammals

Posted February 16, 2005:

• Prehistoric Jawbone Reveals Evolution Repeating Itself

Posted February 7, 2005:

• UC Berkeley, French Scientists Find Missing Link Between The Whale And Its Closest Relative, The Hippo

Posted February 2, 2005:

• Evolution Of Sex Chromosomes: The Case Of The White Campion

Posted November 25, 2004:

• Genome Of Ancient Fish Could Reveal Evolutionary Mysteries, Stanford Scientists Say

Posted November 15, 2004:

• Ancient Fossil Offers New Clues To Brown Bears Past

Posted October 11, 2004:

• Old Bones Unearth New Date For Giant Deer's Last Stand

Posted October 4, 2004:

• Climate Change Plus Human Pressure Caused Large Mammal Extinctions In Late Pleistocene

Posted August 13, 2004:

• Evolution Of Whale Hearing Unfolds In Fossil Record

Posted June 29, 2004:

• Earliest Evidence Of Hereditary Genetic Disorder Discovered

Posted June 18, 2004:

• Mammoths Stranded On Bering Sea Island Delayed Extinction

Posted February 14, 2004:

• Penguin Bones From "Land Of Fire" Rewrite Bird’s Evolution

Posted February 11, 2004:

• Team Excavating Mammoth On Gulf Coast

Posted January 1, 2004:

• Scientist Challenges Interpretation Of New Find, The Oldest Primate Fossil Ever Discovered

Posted December 12, 2003:

• Researchers Discover The Earliest Known Relative Of Marsupial Mammals

Posted December 4, 2003:

• New Fossils From Ethiopia Open A Window On Africa's "Missing Years"

Posted November 25, 2003:

• Book Offers Overview Of Cave Paleontology

Posted October 31, 2003:

• Ultra-low Oxygen Could Have Triggered Die-offs, Spurred Bird Breathing System

Posted September 23, 2003:

• Bones From French Cave Show Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon Hunted Same Prey

Posted February 25, 2003:

• Evidence Acquits Clovis People Of Ancient Killings, Archaeologists Say

Posted February 19, 2003:

• Methane And Mini-horses: Fossils Reveal Effects Of Global Warming

Posted January 24, 2003:

• Prehistoric Tusks Point To Earliest Fossil Evidence Of Differences Between Sexes

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