Blogs Posts in Land Mammals category; 314 blog posts

Giant mammals filled dinosaur void

Mammals waited until dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago to make their move. A new study in the Nov. 26 issue of the journal Science has revealed that in the 20 million years after the extinction of dinosaurs, mammals grew 1,000 [...]

Posted On : Dec, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Mammal Growth Spurt After Dinosaurs Died

Mammals exploded in size after dinosaurs went extinct and continued to grow for about 25 million years, according to a new study that appears in the journal Science. In the first 140 million years of their existence, most mammals stayed [...]

Posted On : Nov, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Dino extinction made mammals grow '1000 times bigger'

The extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago resulted in the size of mammals increasing - by about a thousand times bigger than they had been. "Basically, the dinosaurs disappear and all of a sudden there is nobody else eating t [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Marsupial carnivores 'as diverse as other mammals once'

These pouched killers have included lions, wolves, and even sabretooths. Today, the only large marsupial carnivore left in existence is the Tasmanian Devil, and that is on the brink of extinction. These animals' past success though i [...]

Posted On : Nov, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Dogs are 'smarter than cats'

The intelligence of “a man’s best friend” has evolved at a greater rate than the less social cat over millions of years, scientists at Oxford University have claimed. It was often thought that the feline pet was smarter [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Navy to silence sonar near sea critters

he U.S. Navy must shut down sonar use if marine mammals are spotted near training exercises and take other precautions when using the sound-wave technology or explosives off the Northwest coast, NOAA's Fisheries Service said Tuesday. [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Giant Panda Gives Birth to Cub at Atlanta Zoo

A giant panda gave birth to her third cub Wednesday at Zoo Atlanta, one of only four U.S. zoos that house the endangered animals. The cub weighed about 4 ounces and was about the size of a cell phone, zoo officials said. Mother panda Lun [...]

Posted On : Nov, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Cleveland Museum of Natural History prepares 'Extreme Mammal...

What child wouldn't be impressed by mammals that were huge or tiny, fast or slow, and especially those with "oversized claws, fangs, snouts or horns"? The Cleveland Museum of Natural History's "Extreme Mammals [...]

Posted On : Nov, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Mammals - the winners

For this month's Photos On Sunday competition, we had pictures taken in the wild, we had snaps of squirrels galore, and we had plenty of bovine stars, too, but these winners really caught our eye. Our first and second-placed photogra [...]

Posted On : Nov, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Fifth of vertebrates face extinction

About a fifth of the world's vertebrates are threatened with extinction, a major review has found, highlighting the plight of nature that is the focus of global environment talks under way in Japan. The study by more than 170 sc [...]

Posted On : Oct, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

1220 new species in a decade

Spectacular species previously unknown to the outside world are being discovered in the Amazon rainforest at a rate of one every three days, environment group WWF said in a report published on Tuesday. An anaconda as long as a limousine, [...]

Posted On : Oct, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Gerald and Genevieve the giraffes - a match made at Noah's A...

The Wraxall zoo farm has announce the long-awaited arrival of Genevieve which a keeper describes as a ‘stunningly beautiful two-year-old female’ giraffe. It has taken four years of searching throughout Europe to find a suitab [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Born to Move: Astonishing Photos of Great Migrations

Around the globe, millions of creatures depend on their mobility to survive. From the tiniest organisms to majestic mammals, they know that they must migrate or die trying. The National Geographic Channel's "Great Migrations,&qu [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Extinct mammal fed like a woodpecker

University of Florida researchers used high-resolution CT scans to examine a fossil of the creature, Labidolemur kayi, a member of the Apatemyidae family that has puzzled scientists for centuries because of its strange physical character [...]