It may have been the smart evolutionary strategy during a chaotic chapter of Earth’s history, but it didn’t last. By Jack Tamisiea Mammals are the brainiacs of the animal world. The brain of the sperm ...
LAWRENCE -- Supported with a five-year, $580,000 award from the National Science Foundation, scientists from the University of Kansas are departing this month to investigate how climate, plate ...
About 55 million years ago, the Northern Hemisphere was the site of a major evolutionary makeover: Modern groups of mammals like the ancestors of the horse, deer, goats, primates, and opossumlike ...
During the land-to-water transition in the Eocene epoch, the cetacean skeleton underwent modifications to accommodate life in the seas. These changes are well-documented in the fossil record. The ...
Patriomanis americana is the only pangolin (Mammalia, Pholidota), living or extinct, known from the western hemisphere. It derives from latest Eocene (Chadronian NALMA) deposits from central Wyoming ...
1. Background: 1.1 History and rationale ; 1.2. Southern Africa ; 1.3. Mammals ; 1.4. Sites ; 1.5. Mapping ; 1.6. Dating -- 2. The Eocene: 2.1. Eocene mammals ; 2.2 ...
Additions to the upper Eocene fauna of the Wind River Basin in central Wyoming, based on isolated teeth, include an insectivore, doubtfully identified as Metacodon; three Paramyid rodents, one ...
Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a ...
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