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For many New Zealanders, the Australian magpie is a familiar, if sometimes vexing, sight. Introduced from Australia in the ...
Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today’s animals — including humans — may struggle, or fail, to survive ...
The Shihuiba locality (Lufengpithecus site) at Lufeng, Yunnan is one of the most important Miocene mammal fauna sites in China. The Hipparion (three-toed horse) fossils collected from this ...
A new parrot from the Miocene of Germany, with comments on the variation of hypotarsus morphology in some Psittaciformes, Belgian Journal of Zoology, 134(1):47-54 doi:10.1.1.504.1714 ...
Unlike other Miocene fossil sites in Australia that are peppered with the bones of large vertebrates, McGraths Flat contains remnants of flora and soft-bodied fauna, which are typically more ...
New floridatragulines (Mammalia, Camelidae) from the early Miocene Las Cascadas Formation, Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , 2012; 32 (2): 456 DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2012.635736 Cite ...
The late Miocene mammalian fauna of Chorora, Awash basin, Ethiopia: systematics, biochronology and the 40 K– 40 Ar ages of the associated volcanics. Tertiary Res. 21 , 113–122 (2002) Google ...
Back when W. tomnpatrichorum dwelledin the forests of northwest Australia during the late Miocene period, which lasted from about 12 million to 5 million years ago, Australia was beginning to dry out.
This suggests that the foods animals were eating in the late Miocene were perhaps tougher, more drought-resistant plants, and there was more abrasive dust in the environment.
DR. LEIDY'S new work on the extinct mammalia and fauna of Dakota and Nebraska, to which is appended a Synopsis of the Mammalian Remains of North America, fills a wide gap in Palæontology. It ...