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Mammals running speed determines eye size

Mammals running speed determines eye size

Maximum running speed practically determines mammalian eye size other than body size, says a new study. Species with larger eyes usually have higher visual acuity, says Chris Kirk, associate professor of anthropology at University of Tex [...]

Posted On : May, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Arctic marine mammals and fish populations on the rise

MONTREAL – Arctic marine mammals and fish populations are on the rise, according to a report released on Monday by the Arctic Council's biodiversity working group at a Montreal conference. In fact fish populations have risen dra [...]

Posted On : Apr, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Mammals survived alongside the dinosaurs

An advanced set of molars helped a major group of prehistoric mammals survive the extinction event that ended the reign of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, according to a new study. In research published in Nature, evolutionary biol [...]

Posted On : Apr, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Tracing the Evolutionary History of What Mammals Eat

The feeding habits of mammals haven't always been what they are today, particularly for omnivores.  Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Some groups of mammals almost exclusively eat meat--take lions and tigers and other big cats as exa [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Evolutionary history of what mammals eat: Some groups of mam...

The feeding habits of mammals haven’t always been what they are today, particularly for omnivores, finds a new study. Some groups of mammals almost exclusively eat meat — take lions and tigers and other big cats, for example. [...]

Posted On : Apr, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Marvelous Mammals at Amicalola Falls State Park (April 22)

Mammals have some spectacular super-powers! Which mammals have invisibility? What about super-speed? Super-smarts? Super-hearing? Super-stink? Join a park ranger to explore mammal pelts and learn more about mammals commonly found in the N [...]

Posted On : Apr, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

Agencies gauge drilling noise impacts on mammals in quiet Ar...

Native Alaskans for the past 2,000 years have had the Beaufort and Chukchi seas largely to themselves. Even today, native communities along Alaska’s North Slope hunt whales, seals, walruses and polar bears in relative isolation from [...]

Posted On : Apr, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Mammals didn’t have to wait for the dinosaurs to die out

A study recently published in Nature challenges the prevailing wisdom that the extinction of the dinosaurs paved the way for an explosion of mammalian diversity.  By studying the fossils of a group of mammals called multituberculates [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Navy works to avoid harming mammals

I would like to dispel some misinformation surrounding HMCS Ottawa's exercise in early February and speculation that it is connected to the death of an orca whale found at Long Beach, Washington. First, let me state that no live to [...]

Posted On : Apr, 04 2012 | Comments : 0

Amphisbaenians and the origins of mammals

Amphisbaenians and the origins of mammals

Among the most controversial and remarkable of living tetrapods are the bizarre amphisbaenians: a group of fossorial, long-bodied carnivorous animals with reduced or absent limbs, spade-shaped or bullet-shaped skulls strongly modified for [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Mammals didn’t have to wait for the dinosaurs to die out

A study recently published in Nature challenges the prevailing wisdom that the extinction of the dinosaurs paved the way for an explosion of mammalian diversity.  By studying the fossils of a group of mammals called multituberculates [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

The Age of the Mammals from 65 million years ago (mya)

The Age of the Mammals from 65 million years ago (mya)

65 millin years ago (mya) the Cenozoic era began in the time-scale of geological units. Please click on the link below for a diagram of the Periods and Epochs in the Cenozoic era. The dinosaurs had become extinct and now it was the Age of [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2012 | Comments : 0

They’re So Obviously Mammals!

Readers, the OT just couldn't keep me away. It tried, with instruments both blunt and sharp, but I'm back against all odds with a quick round-up of internet gems. A magnitude 7.4 earthquake rocked Mexico's Pacific coast tod [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Stranding Center lecture gives residents insight into marine...

OCEAN CITY — For Ocean City residents, with a dolphin and a whale stranding less than a month apart, it might sound strange to hear that this year’s seal stranding season has remained relatively slow for the Marine Mammal Stra [...]

Posted On : Mar, 05 2012 | Comments : 0
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