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When did humans get to South America? This giant shelled mammal fossil may hold clues
5 months ago

When did humans get to South America? This giant shelled mammal fossil may hold clues

NPR  

When did humans get to South America? This giant shelled mammal fossil may hold clues toggle caption Daniel Eskridge/Stocktrek Images/Science Source Fossilized bones from an extinct, shelled mammal offer us the latest clue about when humans arrived in South America. If people were present on the continent then, says Alia Lesnek, a geologist at CUNY Queens College who wasn't involved …

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Prehistoric Common Ancestor of Mammals, Including Humans, Revealed in Study
2 years, 2 months ago

Prehistoric Common Ancestor of Mammals, Including Humans, Revealed in Study

News 18  

A study, conducted by Maureen O'Leary, a paleontologist at Stony Brook University in New York, and her research team, concluded that the ancestor of all placental mammals evolved “less than 400,000 years after the mass extinctions that wiped out the dinosaurs.” The groundbreaking study's findings were published on September 26 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Placental mammals …

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Sea lions are dying from a mysterious cancer. The culprits? Herpes and DDT
3 years, 10 months ago

Sea lions are dying from a mysterious cancer. The culprits? Herpes and DDT

LA Times  

On a former Cold War missile base perched high above the Golden Gate Bridge, in what is now the largest marine mammal hospital in the world, Frances Gulland still remembers the shock she felt when she first started working here as a veterinarian 26 years ago. “Sea lions, they’re coming up on the beach, using the same waters that we …

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Extinction of 558 Mammal Species Likely by 2100 If Conservation Efforts are Not Upped
4 years, 3 months ago

Extinction of 558 Mammal Species Likely by 2100 If Conservation Efforts are Not Upped

News 18  

By 2100, the number of mammal species going extinct globally is likely to reach 558 if conservation efforts are not stepped up, researchers have predicted. “On the basis of the IUCN -based scenario, we predict 558 mammal species’ extinctions globally by the year 2100,” the study authors wrote. For the study, Tobias Andermann from University of Gothenburg in Sweden and …

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