UF Researcher: New Techniques Help Reconstruct Ancient Diets
...ient diets andthe ecology of a particular group of extinct mammals," he said. "Thesetechniques are revolutionizing our ability to understand what prehistoricanimals ate. Before now, the only way we could figure that out was by looking attheir teeth. Not only that, our research challenges the traditional view...Gene Study Shows Turtles Are Next Of Kin To Crocodiles And Alligators
...natomist colleagues, Hedges and Poling point to an extinct species fromthe Triassic era, the aetosaur, which appears to share some anatomicalcharacteristics of both turtles and crocodilians. "We hope paleontologists willtake a closer look at reptile fossils from this period to see if they can findany patter...Amphibian Revival: Build It And They Will Come
...havecome back with gusto. Wood frogs that had been extinct in eastern Missouri and spotted salamandersthat had been greatly reduced have come back with a flourish through a long-termconservation effort by biologists at Washington University in St. Louis. Because amphibians live in water and on land and are a......llion yearsago, around the time the dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the CretaceousPeriod. But according to genetic data, this same group of mammals should haveappeared 130 million years ago, early in the Cretaceous Period. Foote and his colleagues, John Hunter of the New York College of OsteopathicMedic...Conservation Strictly By Numbers Can Be Risky
...l predicts that populations smaller than50 will go extinct within 50 years. But Wehausen analyzed 68 Californ...ighorn populations smaller than 50 are effectively extinct and write them off....Earliest Modern Tree Lived 360-345 Million Years Ago
...ened about 360 million years ago.Archaeopteris, an extinct tree that made up most of the forests across the e...an ancient aunt than a direct ancestor, but became extinct within a shortperiod of time at the end of the Devonian age. Before they left, though, Archaeopteri......ewtoni that was the focus of theirresearch, became extinct after human-set fires across the continent's interiorchanged the ecosystem's flora. The new paper strengthens the earlierspeculation by demonstrating for the first time that arid-zone vegetation didindeed change dramatically, consistent with the pro...Walker named a Fellow of the British Royal Society
...namel microwear on teeth to understand the dietsof extinct mammals. He has made many important discoveries during the past three decades atpaleontological digs in Africa with his collaborators Richard and Meave Leakey,including a famous hominid specimen known as "The Black Skull." In 1995 he andMeave Leak...... extinct. After that itplans to bring back several extinct fish from the pre-Cambrian era....Horseshoe crab studies providing new insight into valuable ancient creatures
...e of their closestevolutionary relatives have been extinct for hundreds of millions of years.But while countless other species have come and gone, the horseshoe crabhas survived and is of great importance. At the end of May and during June, hundreds of thousands of theseprehistoric creatures emerge from the ...World's biodiversity becoming extinct at levels rivaling Earth's past 'mass extinctions'
...ndrate or rate at which species have been becoming extinct for the past 65 millionyears, since the major extinction event that closed the Cretaceous Period andthe Mesozoic Era, which coincided with the loss of the last surviving dinosaurs.This was the fifth major extinction event in Earth history, a time whe...Geologists at UNC-CH discover state's 'most spectacular' fossils
...nosaurs then got bigger, dominated mammalsand went extinct themselves about 65 million years ago." Because it has not been published yet, Carter cannot disclose theproposed scientific name of the new reptile. He promised, however, that it willbe named in honor of Allison Chambers, the late champion o...Trouble for the world's turtles
...ly discovered in the last two decades are possibly extinct dueto high demand. Vietnam, Bangladesh and Indonesia are exporting large numbers ofturtles to China and this unsustainable trade now seems to be extending to othercountries as well. Indeed, well over 7 million turtles of several species areexported e...Rainforest birds keep dying out long after logging stops
... world's 360 threatened forestbird species will be extinct in about 50 years. The encouraging conclusion isthat because the most-recently isolated fragments probably still have most oftheir species, conserving these fragments will mean saving the greatest numberof species....Biologist calls 30% of African primates 'living dead'
...termined how many primate species are likely to go extinct inAfrican forests. He based his prediction on two things: 1) the well-documentedrelationship between species number and habitat size, and 2) the extent ofdeforestation in African countries. Cowlishaw's results suggest that the amount of deforestatio...Duke expedition to rescue rare lemurs
...ptive breedingcolony of the animals before they go extinct from hunting and habitatdestruction. Led by Primate Center Director Ken Glander, the expedition will searchfor the diademed sifakas in a 600-acre patch of forest that is rapidly beingdestroyed by wood-gathering and slash-and-burn agriculture....Primitive primate makes the case for Asian anthropoid origins
...e-looking types of primates like lemurs (and their extinct relatives) bya number of anatomical features. The research group hopes that their scientificdetective work involving Bahinia will help them solve a long-standingmystery in primate paleontology: where, when and from whom did the earliestanthropoids ...A 'Juliet' is found for the rare lemur Romeo
...ptive breeding colony of the animalsbefore they go extinct from hunting and habitat destruction. The expedition concentrated on an isolated 600-acre patch of forest thatis rapidly being destroyed by wood-gathering and slash-and-burn agriculture. Theexpedition originally sought to capture three young ...New paleontology research from Natural History Museum of L.A. at international conference
...nd ofcamel in the Southern California desert. This extinct species has mountaingoat-like features and dates b... of the Great WhiteShark. Is it a relative of the extinct 'great-toothed' sharks that swam 55 to 3million years ago, or did they evolve from the extinct nine-...Yale researchers may have solved mystery about why 'Lonesome George' refuses to mate
...n. The other subspecies of the giant tortoises are extinct victims of heavy trapping through the 19th century and the destruction of their habitats by feral animals abandoned on the islands. Lonesome George is so closely related to subspecies from the distant islands of San Cristobal and Espanola that there...