A sea lion pup sickened by a toxic algae bloom along the coast of Southern California recuperates with its mother in a pen at the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro. A patient at the Marine Mammal Care Center, which cares for California sea lions, elephant seals and harbor seals. “It made me realize I need to get off …
An “apocalyptic” mass mortality event that has left thousands of sea lions and elephant seals dead on the beaches of South America is raising alarms among some California sea mammal experts who fear similar scenes could play out along California’s Pacific Coast and other continents as the H5N1 bird flu continues its march across the globe. The disease “presents an …
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 …
Mammals in ancient times were the main competitors of their own kingdom before and after the mass extinction of dinosaurs, said a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Oxford and the University of Birmingham. The study answers why after the extinction of the non-bird dinosaurs, the mammals only seemed to diversify and explored new diets and ways …
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