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5 months, 4 weeks ago

South Sudan says its 6M antelope make up world’s largest land mammal migration, but poaching on rise

BADINGILO and BOMA NATIONAL PARKS, South Sudan — Seen from the air, they ripple across the landscape — a river of antelope racing across the vast grasslands of South Sudan in what conservationists say is the world's largest land mammal migration. South Sudan says its 6M antelope make up world’s largest land mammal migration, but poaching on rise The country's …

Animals Wildlife Migration National Land Parks Sudan

10 months ago

California wildlife is vulnerable to an avian flu ‘apocalypse.’ What is driving the spread?

LA Times

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 …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Exhibition casts light on link between past and present

China Daily

A boy is intrigued by the fossils on display at the exhibition in Beijing. CHINA DAILY This year marks the 100th anniversary since American geologist and paleontologist Amadeus William Grabau first discovered a type of fauna in Lingyuan in 1923, and named it the Jehol Series. At the exhibition, the star fossil is the world's earliest placental mammal Juramaia sinensis, …

Fossil Mammal Jehol Biota

1 year, 5 months ago

Dramatic fossil shows mammal attacking dinosaur

The Hindu

While there is little doubt that many a Mesozoic mammal became a meal for a dinosaur, it may come as a surprise to learn that some mammals also dined on dinos. A dramatic fossil unearthed in northeastern China shows a badger-like mammal in the act of attacking a plant-eating dinosaur, mounting its prey and sinking its teeth into its victim’s …

Fossil Dinosaurs Dinosaur Mammal Psittacosaurus

1 year, 7 months ago

‘At least 10% of the human genome is unchanged across mammal species’

The Hindu

By comparing the genetic blueprints of an array of animals, scientists are gaining new insights into our own species and all we share with other creatures. One study found that at least 10% of the human genome is largely unchanged across species. “One of the really cool things about mammals is that at this point in time, they’ve basically adapted …

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1 year, 9 months ago

The weight of life: Cattle 40% of all mammals by mass, wild animals 6%

Hindustan Times

Almost 40% of mammals by mass in the world are cattle, and with India accounting for around 30% of the world’s cattle according to the US Department of Agriculture, Indian cattle should account for around 12% of the mammalian biomass in the world. “We were able to attain global population reports accounting for about half of the total biomass of …

Animals Indian Land Species Wild Tonnes Total

3 years, 2 months ago

Mass extinction that saw 63% of mammal species vanish from Africa just now documented

Daily Mail

A dramatic change in climate that occurred about 30 million years ago resulted in a mass extinction in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula that is just now being documented by the scientific community. A team of international scientists analyzed a large collection of fossils from five mammal groups that once roamed those regions, revealing that 63 percent of the species …

Earth Million Extinction Extinct Eocene Mass Extinction Five Mammal Groups

3 years, 4 months ago

Scientists Exhume Ancient Cat-sized Mammal Named After The Hobbit's 'Beorn'

News 18

Paleontology experts from the University of Colorado managed to exhume parts of teeth and lower jawbones of three mammals dating back to almost 66 million years ago. The mammals are believed to have roamed all around the continent of North America post the extinction of the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. One of the mammals is the size of …

Size Mammals Mammal Named Beorn

3 years, 6 months ago

A giant prehistoric rhino was the biggest ever land mammal

CNN

CNN — Paleontologists working in China have discovered a new species of giant rhino, the largest land mammal ever to have walked the earth. The new species, Paraceratherium linxiaense, or Linxia Giant Rhino, was named by a Chinese and US team led by Deng Tao from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the academy, which analyzed fossils found …

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4 years ago

This 'Crazy Beast' From Madagascar Was a Weird Early Mammal That Lived Among Dinosaurs

News 18

Researchers have uncovered the fossil of an early mammal named the “crazy beast” that lived 66 million years ago alongside dinosaurs and giant crocodiles on Madagascar, and it’s unlike any mammal ever known, living or extinct. “Knowing what we know about the skeletal anatomy of all living and extinct mammals, it is difficult to imagine that a mammal like Adalatherium …

Animals Million Living Ago Madagascar Known Strange

4 years ago

World’s biggest mammal migration under threat

Al Jazeera

Experts say near-threatened fruit bats, crucial for restoring forests in Africa, are in danger. Straw-coloured fruit bats, dubbed “the gardeners of Africa”, are important for the regeneration of woodland forest and Indigenous fruit trees. Protecting the park James Mwanza, community outreach manager at Kasanka Trust, which manages the park, says commercial agriculture is the main threat to natural resources which …

Community Threat Fruit Deforestation Forest Park Bats

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