Global team of scientists describes new genus of African monkey: First in 83 years
...ng a new genus of the best-studied group of living mammals is a sobering reminder of how much we have left to... to a paleontologist like me because I often study mammals that have been extinct for millions of years."...Scientists describe new African monkey genus first in 83 years
...ng a new genus of the best-studied group of living mammals is a sobering reminder of how much we have to learn about our planet's biodiversity," notes Link Olson, another co-author and Mammals Curator at the University of Alaska Museum. The new African monkey, Rungwecebus kipunji (rhung-way-CEE-bus key-POON...International team of scientists discovers new primate genus
...hy," said Olson, who also serves as the curator of mammals at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. "...ng a new genus in the best-studied group of living mammals is a sobering reminder of how much we have to learn about the planet's biodiversity." This is the fi...Whale bubble nets, saxophone sounds, ultrasonic laser
...mbic lobe, which does not occur in humans or other mammals besides porpoises and whales. Now, Sam Ridgway and...eflective membrane in the back of the eyes of many mammals such as dogs, cats, and dolphins (but not humans). The visual tapetum helps improve vision in low-l...Copying nature could save us energy, study shows
...the same way. Instead, insects, plants, birds and mammals rely on the structure and organisation of their body parts and behaviour; the solutions to problems are already built in. "An example might be a hammer," said Professor Julian Vincent from the University of Bath who led the research . "A man-made ham...DARPA grant supports research toward realizing tissue regeneration
...succeed at unlocking the regenerative potential of mammals than would be possible working in the silos of our..., can self-renew; and during embryonic development mammals and birds can regenerate such diverse tissues and structures as their skin and spinal cord. However,...Computers to save unique type of American red squirrel
...e Mexican Spotted Owl and the Northern goshawk and mammals like the Bobcat. Dr Peter Lurz, a research associate based at Newcastle University's Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability, began working on the project when the Arizona University team attended an international squirrel symposium...'Banana-jawed' fossil mammal linked to rare sound-producing skill
...rohyrax and its fossil relatives would be the only mammals found so far to use such a skeletal structure for ...s said. "Hyraxes today are improbably cute-looking mammals that are about the size of rabbits, look much like guinea pigs and have a penchant for sunbathing," ...Hyena mothers give their cubs a helpful dose of hormones
...he April 27 issue of Nature, is the first study in mammals to demonstrate a relationship between a female's social rank and her ability to influence her offspring's behavior through prenatal hormone transfer. Previously, this phenomenon had only been documented in birds. Michigan State University's Kay Holek......nstance where researchers have shown that a female mammals hormones can influence her offsprings behavior and...norm and turn it on its head. You dont find many mammals where the female is the boss, Holekamp said. The sex roles in spotted hyenas are completely reversed...New groundbreaking findings in taste, smell and chemical irritation
...ir nervous systems throughout their lives, just as mammals do. Those new neurons aren't added just anywhere, however. They grow specifically in areas that control the sense of smell. The irresistible scent of bile summons migrating salmon and trout home -- Although born in streams, salmon spend most of t...New gene reduces retinal degeneration in fruit flies
...founding member of a family of related proteins in mammals that are essential for guiding certain nerves duri...maximum, it is possible that a Lazaro-like gene in mammals might also play a role in how well mammalian TRP channels work. "These results have implications f...African amphibians make extreme parental sacrifice: The skin off their backs
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Just as baby mammals depend on their mothers' milk, the young of the African amphibian Boulengerula taitanus nourish themselves by stripping off and eating the fat-rich outer layer of their mothers' skin, according to an international team of researchers that includes Un...... Bruce D. Patterson, PhD, the MacArthur curator of mammals at The Field Museum and lead author of the researc...mbol to our culture," said Roland Kays, curator of mammals at the New York State Museum in Albany, N.Y., and a coauthor of this study. "We hope they can surviv...Yale researchers find environmental toxins disruptive to hearing in mammals
...also indicate that the hearing in marine and other mammals could be affected by environmental toxins, such as...ns in the outer hair cell." Sensitive hearing in mammals relies on cochlear amplification resulting from the motor activity of outer hair cells. They are the...Possible brain hormone may unlock mystery of hibernation
.... "One of the most curious biological phenomena in mammals is theirability to hibernate circannually, which a... events suchas reproduction in seasonally breeding mammals and migration in birds, theysaid. Even humans can maintain seasonal rhythms as exhibited by seasonal...War between the sexes influences evolution in some species, say scientists
...genetic battle that occurs in the placenta of most mammals and in the endosperm of plants.......ast 54 species of birds and at least 24 species of mammals live on Camiguin, and that some of these animals are found nowhere else on earth, makes us realize how important this island is in terms of conservation," said Lawrence Heaney, Curator of Mammals, at The Field Museum and a co-author of several of the...Alaska seal pup diet may hold key to decline of population
...the declining population of seals and other marine mammals with the change in availability of seal prey, incl...fort to find out why harbor seals and other marine mammals are disappearing from the chilly waters off the Alaskan coast. The population decline, which has bec...Starving diamond-back still grows; rattler cuts metabolism 80 percent, use lipid energy source
...y 2006, Marshall McCue notes that "birds, fish and mammals including humans have been studied in terms of food-deprivation, but surprisingly, the desert snakes haven't been studied in this regard considering that in the wild they'll go for up to two years without food. So McCue carefully studied 16 diamond-b...