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- Finding New Species: The Golden Age of Discovery - Yale e360
A 2008 study by the Arizona State University International Institute for Species Exploration reported 16,969 new species of plants and animals described in 2006 alone (not including new species of microbial life), which amounts to some 1 percent of Earth’s 1 8 million known species While insects accounted for more than half of these newfound
- Analysis of biodiversity data suggests that mammal species . . .
Rather, we suspect that there have been more taxonomists working in mammals in proportion to the actual species diversity in the clade than in hyperdiverse clades such as beetles or mites While the popular conception of species discovery consists of scientific expeditions to remote regions, specimens from many undescribed species are already
- Why Did Mammals Survive When Dinosaurs Perished?
According to Penn State researcher Russ Graham, the lifestyles of mammals gave them an advantage when the asteroid struck the area that is today's Yucatan peninsula about 65 million years ago In
- New estimates indicate that males are not larger than females . . .
A long-standing narrative postulates that in mammals, males are typically larger than females Darwin treated it as a matter of common knowledge 1, as have many subsequent evolutionary biologists
- Tapir - Wikipedia
The evolution of tapir probosces, made up almost entirely of soft tissues rather than bony internal structures, gives the Tapiridae skull a unique form in comparison to other perissodactyls, with a larger sagittal crest, orbits positioned more rostrally, a posteriorly telescoped cranium, and a more elongated and retracted nasoincisive incisure
- Africa Mammals Guide - Kruger Park Wildlife
The Cape Clawless Otter is larger than the only other species which occurs in southern Africa, the Spotted-Necked Otter It is long-necked, sleek-furred and short-legged with a long, flattened but pointed-tipped tail which it uses as a rudder
- 16 Animals That Are Living Fossils - Treehugger
In 2020, scientists discovered that there are two distinct species of red pandas: the Himalayan red panda and the Chinese red panda Relatives of the red panda lived between 5 and 12 million years
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