Misha the elephant lived in zoos, but her tooth enamel helps reconstruct wildlife migrations
Teeth recovered from a beloved zoo elephant that died in 2008 are helping University of Utah geologists develop a method for ...
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A New Study Finds That Domestic Cats Traveled the Silk Road to China About 1,400 Years Ago
Per the study, China’s oldest known domestic cat lived in the central province of Shaanxi between 706 and 883, during the ...
‘Chipmunk shark’ lurked 340 million years ago. Its teeth were just found in Kentucky
A shark no larger than a human hand that stalked the ancient sea floor 340 million years ago has been dubbed the “chipmunk ...
This extinct tree-dwelling mammal may be among humans’ closer relatives
Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...
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A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal
Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing ...
Discovering the leaf-eating, tree-clinging mammal of the Paleocene
Skeleton shows Mixodectes pungens lived in trees and primarily ate leaves during the Paleocene epoch, highlighting its unique ...
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Paleontologists Just Identified A 240-Million-Year-Old Salamander With ‘Gnarly Teeth’ And Skin Intact
Scientists in Australia just identified a new species of primitive amphibian with "gnarly teeth" that lived in the rivers of ...
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Cat Phones
Cat, or Caterpillar, is a US-based construction machinery manufacturing company. The company licensed its brand to UK-based Bullitt Mobile back in 2013, which has since been producing Cat-branded ...