All Articles Tagged As: mammals
 | Large-brained simians of the New and Old Worlds independently arose from smaller-brained ancestors ...> Full Article |
 | Research is uncovering the truth behind the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth - the 2.5 tonne wombat-like Diprotodon. ...> Full Article |
 | Palaeontologist has helped to uncover compelling new evidence that New Zealand was discovered 1000 years later than commonly believed. ...> Full Article |
 | An ancient relative of today's elephants lived in water, a team of scientist has found. ...> Full Article |
 | They are separated by a vast ocean and by millions of years, but tiny prehistoric bones found on an Australian farm have been directly linked to a strange and secretive little animal that lives today in the southern rainforests of South America. ...> Full Article |
 | Analysis of the first hand bones belonging to an ancient lemur has revealed a mysterious joint structure that has scientists puzzled. ...> Full Article |
 | The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved fossil representing the most primitive bat species known to date demonstrates that the animals evolved the ability to fly before they could echolocate. ...> Full Article |
 | Rather than being gentle giants, new research reveals that Pleistocene cave bears ate both plants and animals and competed for food with the other contemporary large carnivores of the time: hyaenas, lions, wolves, and our own human ancestors. ...> Full Article |
 | Scientists have discovered the missing link between whales and their four-footed ancestors. The result is reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). ...> Full Article |
 | The mysterious missing link between marine mammals known as cetaceans -- a group that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises -- and their land-based mammal ancestors has been found. ...> Full Article |
 | Some of the world's most exquisite early models of the natural world have been made available to the public for the first time. ...> Full Article |
 | A paleontological dig in Chile at an altitude of more than 14,000 feet in the Andes has yielded fossils of an 18-million-year-old armored mammal. It appears to be one of the most primitive members of a family of extinct mammals known as "glyptodonts," a group closely related to the modern-day armadillo. ...> Full Article |
 | How did the rodents which inhabited the south of the Iberian Peninsula live six million years ago? The researcher of the UGR Raef Minwer-Barakat has attempted to answer this question through his doctoral thesis "Rodents and insectivorous of Upper Turoliense and the Pliocene of the central section of the Guadix basin", supervised by doctors Elvira Martín and César Viseras, of the Department of Stratigraphy y Palaeontology of the Universidad de Granada. His studied has concluded with the discovering of three new species of rodents and insectivores (Micromys caesaris, Blarinoides aliciae and Archaeodesmana elvirae) and the finding, for the first time in the region, of nine more species. ...> Full Article |
 | New study is the first to document ancient hunting effects on large-game species in the Maya lowlands of Central America, and shows political and social demands near important cities likely contributed to their population decline, especially white-tailed deer. ...> Full Article |
 | A team of Chinese and American scientists has discovered a new mammal from the 165 million-year-old lakebeds of the Jurassic Period in Northern China. ...> Full Article |
 | Lacks power, and is easily broken - but the verdict is this cat is still a killer ...> Full Article |
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