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Wednesday 14 November 2018

National Science Foundation Fossil discovery adds to understanding of how geological changes affected evolution of mammalian life

Fossil discovery adds to understanding of how geological changes affected evolution of mammalian life

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Fossil discovery adds to understanding of how geological changes affected evolution of mammalian life

Reconstruction of the Eocene paleoenvironment of the Pontide terrane in Turkey, where the new marsupial fossils were found.

The discovery of fossil teeth from two marsupial species that lived 43 million years ago on what was at that time an island provides key insights into the influence of geological changes on the evolution of mammals, according to newly published research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The dominant model for understanding animal movement is that the most important factors are an island's size and its distance from the colonizing animals' territory. However, the ...

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Published November 15, 2018 at 12:30AM
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