Posts Tagged ‘mammals’

How and Why Humans (and Other Mammals) Lost Most of their Body Hair

For decades scientists have been puzzled and intrigued by a most fascinating question, which is: why do human beings have so much less body hair than other primates, and most other land mammals in general? Read more Section:  News Evolution & Human Origins Read Later  Source

What Do Dogs and Other Mammals Have That Humans Don’t? A Penis Bone

In a place before time, life somehow emerged on Earth. It grew and flourished. It changed. It split, and some of it went its different ways. There was life in the water and life on the land. Read more Section:  News Human Origins Science Unexplained Phenomena Read Later 

‘Hypercarnivores’ kept massive ancient herbivores in check

A pack of saber-tooth cats (Smilodon) fight with adult Colombian mammoths over a juvenile mammoth they’ve felled. A new analysis by a team of biologists concludes that ‘hypercarnivores’ such as these working in concert could have taken down juveniles of the largest herbivores. Credit: Mauricio Anton When the largest modern-day plant-eaters—elephants—are confined to too small […]

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