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Birth Rate, Competition Are Major Players In Hominid Extinctions

... low birth numbers combined with competition often spelled extinction. "The lineages of primates have some traits that make it hard ... thousand years ago, they suffered a gradual decrease and extinction from about 30 to 26 thousand years ago. "Neandertal was ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2007 - 12:54am - 0 attachments

New DNA Method Helps Explain Extinction Of Woolly Mammoth, Other Ice Age Mammals

What caused the extinction of the woolly rhinoceros ten thousand years ago from an area in ... coasts of the Mediterranean in the south? What caused the extinction of the mammoth while other ice age mammals like the musk ox just ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2007 - 2:43pm - 0 attachments

Climate Contra Evolution

... species – species that are rarely threatened by extinction. Evolutionary history, on the contrary, seems to play a major role ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2007 - 11:13am - 0 attachments

'Terror Bird' Arrived In North America Before Land Bridge, Study Finds

... of Titanis in the fossil record and reflects its extinction." (Image courtesy of Florida Museum of Natural History) ... of Titanis in the fossil record and reflects its extinction.” When an animal dies, its porous bones absorb groundwater as ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2007 - 12:04am - 0 attachments

Paleontologists Discover Most Primitive Primate Skeleton

... to 55 million years ago in the period between the extinction of the dinosaurs and the first appearance of a number of undisputed ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2007 - 11:01pm - 0 attachments

Largest North America Climate Change In 65 Million Years, Study Shows

... the "Big Cut" in French, because it marks a massive extinction of life in both marine and land environments. Scientists believe the ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2007 - 2:40pm - 0 attachments