Giant Sloths and Sabre-Toothed Neighbors: New Venezuelan Fossil Site Reveals Ice Age Menagerie
A new Late Pleistocene site in western Venezuela preserves giant sloths, glyptodonts, gomphotheres, horses and an ocelot-like cat, dating to ...
Tag: Pleistocene
Ice Age Flying Squirrels Reveal Cold Forests Once Covered China’s Three Gorges
Fossil flying squirrels from Yumidong Cave in Chongqing record ice age coniferous forests and the regional extinction of cold-adapted gliders.
Ice Age Rhythms Split One Butterfly into Six Hidden Lineages Across the Alps and Carpathians
Mitochondrial DNA from the large ringlet butterfly reveals five distinct lineages whose divergence was driven by repeated glacial separations between ...
Hidden Refugia: How West African Rainforests Survived Millions of Years of Climate Chaos
A comprehensive review reveals that West African rainforest refugia, from Mount Nimba to the Niger Delta, sheltered species through millions ...
Ancient porcupine fossils reveal first island colonisation in Pleistocene Taiwan
Fossil teeth from southern Taiwan record the first known island colonisation by the porcupine Hystrix subcristata, extending its Pleistocene range ...
Mitochondrial DNA Reveals How the Endangered Dwarf Buffalo Reached Sulawesi
A new mitochondrial DNA phylogeny shows that the endangered Anoa of Sulawesi diverged into mountain and lowland species about 1.42 ...
Baby Mammoth From Switzerland Reveals Secrets of Its First Months
A woolly mammoth calf that died roughly 45,000 years ago in a Swiss peat bog is rewriting what scientists know ...
Tiny Fossil Crustaceans Reveal Hidden Climate Shifts in the Deep Norwegian Sea
A study of over 15,000 fossil ostracods from the Norwegian Sea reveals how deep-sea communities responded to glacial cycles and ...
Why Did the Mammoths Die? A Systematic Review Maps the Megafauna Extinction Debate
A new systematic review in Frontiers in Mammal Science maps more than two centuries of the megafauna extinction debate, revealing ...
Snail found 2,200 km from home hints at a hidden Pleistocene route across Asia
A pond snail discovered in Kazakhstan some 2,200 kilometers beyond its known East Asian range carries genetic diversity pointing to ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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