Tag: mammal

Russia’s eastern Kamchatka region urges people to avoid coast after tsunami alert

EARTHQUAKES
The governor of Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka region has urged residents not to approach the coastline. “A tsunami warning has been issued, and the strength of the wave is being determined”, Vladimir Solodov said on Telegram. “I urge...

Some facts about the strongest earthquakes ever recorded

EARTHQUAKES
One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia’s Far East early Wednesday, causing tsunami waves to wash ashore in Japan and Alaska and calls for people around the Pacific to be on alert or move to higher...

A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal

PALEONTOLOGY
For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery....

Paleontologists discover Colorado ‘swamp dweller’ mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs

PALEONTOLOGY
A team of paleontologists working near Rangely, Colorado, has uncovered a new (or, more accurately, very old) state resident—a fossil mammal about the size...

New species of extinct walrus-like mammal discovered in the North Atlantic

ENVIRONMENT
A new discovery by a team of paleontologists, led by Dr. Mathieu Boisville (University of Tsukuba, Japan), has uncovered a new species of the...

Race to find world’s oldest mammal fossils led to academic warfare in the 1970s

PALEONTOLOGY
The hunt for the world's most ancient mammals descended into academic warfare in the 1970s, researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered. In a study published...

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