Prehistoric Mammal News

Posted August 6, 2009:

• Climate-Caused Biodiversity Booms And Busts In Ancient Plants And Mammals

Posted July 29, 2009:

• Naming Evolution's Winners And Losers

Posted July 28, 2009:

• First Vertebrate To Live In Trees Described
• Fossil Tooth Remains Of Extinct Rodent Species Discovered: Oldest Find Within This Genus

Posted July 16, 2009:

• Fossilized Dung Balls Reveal Secret Ecology Of Lost World

Posted July 9, 2009:

• Climate Events Let Ice Age Mammoths Pass Far Below 40 Degrees North Latitude

Posted June 30, 2009:

• Giant Moa Rebuilt Using Ancient DNA From Prehistoric Feathers

Posted June 29, 2009:

• Natural-Born Divers And The Molecular Traces Of Evolution

Posted June 26, 2009:

• Discovery Of Elephants' Oldest Known Relative

Posted June 17, 2009:

• Mammoths Survived In Britain Until 14,000 Years Ago, New Discovery Suggests

Posted June 8, 2009:

• Mobile DNA Elements In Woolly Mammoth Genome Give New Clues To Mammalian Evolution
• Fossil Bone Bed Helps Reconstruct Life Along California's Ancient Coastline

Posted June 2, 2009:

• Ancient Mammals Shifted Diets As Climate Changed

Posted June 1, 2009:

• High Arctic Mammals Wintered In Darkness 53 Million Years Ago

Posted May 25, 2009:

• Link Between Sociality And Brain Increase In Carnivores Questioned By Evolutionary Biologists

Posted May 19, 2009:

• Common Ancestor Of Humans, Modern Primates? 'Extraordinary' Fossil Is 47 Million Years Old

Posted May 18, 2009:

• Fossil Of 'Giant' Shrew Nearly One Million Years Old Found In Spain

Posted May 7, 2009:

• Small Brain Of Dwarf 'Hobbit' Explained By Hippo's Island Life

Posted April 28, 2009:

• Google Earth Aids Discovery Of Early African Mammal Fossils
• Analysis Finds Strong Match Between Molecular, Fossil Data In Evolutionary Studies

Posted April 8, 2009:

• Prehistoric Bears Ate Everything And Anything, Just Like Modern Cousins

Posted March 19, 2009:

• Genomic Fossils In Lemurs Shed Light On Origin And Evolution Of HIV And Other Primate Lentiviruses

Posted March 12, 2009:

• Preserved Shark Fossil Adds Evidence To Great White's Origins

Posted March 5, 2009:

• Dead Gene Comes Back To Life In Humans

Posted February 25, 2009:

• Fossilized Pregnant Fish One Of First Animals To Have Sex
• Clovis-Era Tool Cache 13,000 Years Old Shows Evidence Of Camel, Horse Butchering

Posted February 18, 2009:

• Vast Cache Of Ice-Age Fossils Uncovered At La Brea Tar Pits In Los Angeles

Posted February 13, 2009:

• New Questions About Evolution Of Hormones In Mammals

Posted February 9, 2009:

• New Species Of Prehistoric Creatures Discovered In Isle Of Wight Mud

Posted February 4, 2009:

• Early Whales Gave Birth On Land, Fossil Find Reveals

Posted January 27, 2009:

• Birds Survived Mass Extinction That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Because Of Their Larger Brains

Posted January 26, 2009:

• Dinosaur Fossils Fit Perfectly Into The Evolutionary Tree Of Life, Study Finds

Posted January 21, 2009:

• Reptile Fossil Reignites Debate Over New Zealand Submergence

Posted January 12, 2009:

• Hair Of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes Of Extinct Species

Posted December 16, 2008:

• Beaked Whales’ Tusks Evolved Through Sexual Selection Process

Posted November 11, 2008:

• Ice Age Beasts In Europe: Migration Of The Woolly Rhinoceros Earlier Than Assumed

Posted November 5, 2008:

• Death By Hyperdisease: How DNA Detective Work Explains Extinction Of Christmas Island's Native Rats

Posted October 31, 2008:

• Extinct Sabertooth Cats Were Social, Found Strength In Numbers, Study Shows

Posted September 18, 2008:

• 'Redesigned Hammer' That Forged Evolution Of Pregnancy In Mammals Found

Posted September 4, 2008:

• DNA Shows That Last Woolly Mammoths Had North American Roots
• Molecular Evolution Is Echoed In Bat Ears

Posted July 11, 2008:

• Big Predatory Mammals Such As Felines Need Between 5 And 7 Different Types Of Prey To Meet Their Dietary Needs

Posted July 9, 2008:

• Big Brains Arose Twice In Higher Primates

Posted July 8, 2008:

• Fossil Feathers Preserve Evidence Of Color, Say Scientists

Posted July 1, 2008:

• Newcomer In Early Eurafrican Population?
• Evolutionary Origin Of Mammalian Gene Regulation Is Over 150 Million Years Old

Posted June 11, 2008:

• Woolly Mammoth Gene Study Changes Extinction Theory

Posted June 2, 2008:

• Evolution Of An Imprinted Domain In Mammals

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