Tag: mammalia
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New Jurassic Shuotheriid Species Sheds Light on Early Evolution of Mammaliaforms
Live Science has a story about a new Jurassic mammaliaform. Feredocodon chowi lived during the Jurassic in what is now China. It’s a Shuotheriid, which is a group of mammal-like animals that have long been problematic as to where they fit into the mammalian family tree. Their unique dental characteristics make them hard to classify. …
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Rare Jurassic fossils discovered near Lake Powell
Phys.org has a story about the discovery of some rare fossils new Lake Powell in Utah. Tritylodontid mammaliaforms are rare animals that lived during the Jurassic Period about 180 million years ago. The fossils were discovered in an area that would ordinarily be covered in water… you might say that the paleontologists were in the…
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PBS Eons: Why The Giraffe Got Its Neck
PBS Eons has a new video on Youtube. This one is about the evolution of long necks in giraffes. How and why the giraffe's neck emerged in the first place has been a mystery that generations of biologists have argued over – one that has made us reconsider our understanding of how evolution actually works…
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PBS Eons: How to Build a Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?)
There's a new episode of PBS Eons. This one is about Woolly Mammoths. Could and should we bring them back… In the quest to understand how evolution basically built the woolly mammoth, we may have found the blueprints for building them ourselves.
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PBS Eons: Is This the Oldest Dad in the Fossil Record?
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about fossil evidence of early mammals and how they raised their young, Fossil evidence suggests Diictodon used burrows to breed, and that a parent stayed behind to feed and protect their young. And the parent that stayed behind? It might’ve been the male.
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PBS Eons: The Extreme Hyenas That Didn’t Last
There's a new episode of PBS Eons. This one is about how we got the modern hyenas. Did you know they are more closely related to cats than dogs?
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March Mammal Madness 2021
The “Mammals Suck… Milk!” blog is running a March Madness type tournament with Mammal species. The tournament was created by Dr. David Schiffman a mammologist at Arizona State University. It is a simulated combat between the animals. Follow along and make a bracket. They will be posting update throughout the month of March. BUT WELCOME…
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Mammals and their relatives thrived, diversified during so-called ‘Age of Dinosaurs’
Phys.org has an article about Mammals during the “Age of Dinosaurs”. In a paper in Trends & Evolution, a review paper summarizes the latest fossil evidence of the state of Mammals and their relatives during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. It seems that Mammals were flourishing and experienced a couple ecological radiations during this time.…
