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Global warming led to dwarfism in mammals -- twice
2013-11-02 19:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Mammal body size decreased significantly during at least two ancient global warming events. A new finding that suggests a similar outcome is possible in response to human-caused climate change, according to a University of Michigan paleontologist and his colleagues. Researchers have known for years that mammals such as primates and the groups that include horses and deer became much smaller during a period of warming, called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), about 55 million years ago....
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New prioritization for Brazil's threatened mammals
2013-09-30 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Scientists have applied a species prioritization scheme to Brazil's diverse mammals to deduce which species should become the focus of conservation efforts over the next few years in a new paper published in mongabay.com's open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science. Rather than solely relying on the risk of extinction to prioritize species, the scheme originally suggested by researchers at the Centro de Ecología for Venezuelan birds, but applied to Brazilian fauna by researchers at the...
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Birds and Mammals Face New Threats from Global Population Growth
2013-06-19 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: As global population continues to grow, hundreds of species of birds and mammals will be threatened with extinction in the next four decades, according to new research. A recent United Nations report predicted world population will reach 9.6 billion by 2050 and the latest research from The Ohio State University supplements prior studies that indicate an increasing human population density will impact already endangered species. The latest data link expanding human population to new threats of...
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World's most distinct mammals and amphibians mapped
2013-05-16 03:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Scientists have developed the first map of the world's unique and most endangered mammals and amphibians. The map highlights the fact that only a fraction of the areas identified as critical for the conservation of these species are protected. Among the species highlighted by the map are the Mexican salamander, the Sunda pangolin and the black and white ruffed Lemur. The research is published in the journal Plos One. The Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) project has...
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H1N1 Discovered in Marine Mammals
2013-05-16 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Scientists at the University of California, Davis, detected the H1N1 (2009) virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the central California coast a year after the human pandemic began, according to a study published yesterday (May 15) in the journal PLOS ONE. It is the first report of that flu strain in any marine mammal.
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