News tagged with mammalian teeth
Two-million-year-old evidence shows tool-making hominins inhabited grassland environments
In an article published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE on October 21, 2009, Dr Thomas Plummer of Queens College at the City University of New York, Dr Richard Potts of the Smithsonian Institution Nation ...
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Oct 21, 2009 |
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Skeletons found in Oxford could be '10th-century Viking raiders'
(Phys.org) -- Thirty-seven skeletons found in a mass burial site in the grounds of St John's College may not be who they initially seemed, according to Oxford researchers studying the remains.
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Apr 12, 2012 |
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Blocking 'oh-glick-nack' may improve long-term memory
Just as the familiar sugar in food can be bad for the teeth and waistline, another sugar has been implicated as a health menace and blocking its action may have benefits that include improving long-term memory ...
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Many meat-eating mammals lack sweet tooth, study finds
For all their sharp teeth, many meat-eating mammals lack a sweet tooth, a genetic analysis of a dozen species has shown.
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Wolves eating less than 1% of German livestock, study finds
Despite the reappearance of wolves in Germany, local farmers should not worry about these creatures attacking and eating their livestock. Less than 1% of farm animals are on the wolves' menu, new research ...
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Fossil teeth of Gigantopithecus found from Yunnan-Guizhou plateau
Pleistocene Gigantopithecus blacki is the largest species of all extinct and extant primates. Its diet, distribution and evolution remained unclear. According to a paper in press in the journal of Quaternary In ...
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Feb 29, 2012 |
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Carbon isotope reveals a solely C3 biomass diet for gigantopithecus in the early pleistocene of South China
The extinct giant ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, is a species of large hominoids that dominated the Pleistocene of South China. Its massive mandible, large postcanine teeth and extremely thick enamel always ...
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Nov 10, 2011 |
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New cervid species found in middle miocene of Nei Mongol, China
Wang Li-Hua, a graduate student paleontologist from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, identified a new species of cervid, Euprox altus, from the Middle ...
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Nov 03, 2011 |
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'Sabre-toothed squirrel': First known mammalian skull from Late Cretaceous discovered in South America
Paleontologist Guillermo Rougier, Ph.D., professor of anatomical sciences and neurobiology at the University of Louisville, and his team have reported their discovery of two skulls from the first known mammal ...
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Nov 02, 2011 |
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Oldest fossil rodents in South America confirms animals from Africa
In a literal walk through time along the Ucayali River near Contamana, Peru, a team of researchers found rodent fossils at least 41 million years old – by far the oldest on the South American continent.
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Oct 12, 2011 |
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Improving evolutionary Tree of Life: Study provides robust molecular phylogeny for mammalian families
An international research team led by biologists at the University of California, Riverside and Texas A&M University has released for the first time a large and robust DNA matrix that has representation for ...
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