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Steppe change: Mammoths roamed southern Spain
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Jul 09, 2009 |
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Remains of woolly mammoths have been found in southern Spain, proving that the chilly grip of the last Ice Age extended farther south than thought, palaeontologists said on Thursday.
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The largest bat in Europe inhabited northeastern Spain more than 10,000 years ago
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Oct 29, 2009 |
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Spanish researchers have confirmed that the largest bat in Europe, Nyctalus lasiopterus, was present in north-eastern Spain during the Late Pleistocene (between 120,000 and 10,000 years ago). The Greater Noctul ...
Climate change reduces Queensland's bat numbers
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Jul 09, 2007 |
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A central eastern Queensland mine has turned up bat fossils which show climate change has had a negative impact on the state’s bat population.
Cantabrian cornice experienced seven cooling, warming phases over past 41,000 years
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Jun 03, 2009 |
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In 1996, an international team of scientists led by the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) started to carry out a paleontological survey in the cave of El Mirón. Since then they have focused on analysing the fossil remains ...
Are Ice Age relics the next casualty of climate change?
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Apr 24, 2008 |
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The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) recently launched a four-year study to determine if climate change is affecting populations of a quintessential Arctic denizen: the rare musk ox. Along with collaborators ...
Study finds human population expanded during late Stone Age
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Genetic evidence is revealing that human populations began to expand in size in Africa during the Late Stone Age approximately 40,000 years ago. A research team led by Michael F. Hammer (Arizona Research Laboratory's Division ...
Did a Significant Cool Spell Mark the Demise of Megafauna?
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Apr 23, 2008 |
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The end of the Pleistocene Epoch was marked with steadily warmer temperatures and the great ice age glaciers that covered vast areas of North America were in retreat.
Clovis-age overkill didn't take out California's flightless sea duck
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Mar 17, 2008 |
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Clovis-age natives, often noted for overhunting during their brief dominance in a primitive North America, deserve clemency in the case of California's flightless sea duck. New evidence says it took thousands of years for ...
Late Neanderthals and modern human contact in southeastern Iberia
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Dec 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It is widely accepted that Upper Paleolithic early modern humans spread westward across Europe about 42,000 years ago, displacing and absorbing Neanderthal populations in the process. However, ...
Most Cave Art The Work Of Teens Not Shamans
Feb 16, 2006 |
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Long accustomed to lifting mammoth bones from mudbanks and museum shelves and making sketches from cave art to gather details about Pleistocene animal anatomy, renowned paleobiologist and artist R. Dale Guthrie offers a fascinating ...
3.2-Million-Year Temperature History from Tiny Fossils
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Aug 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- People often talk about greenhouse gases and their effect on the earth's climate as if those effects were new. But greenhouse gases have been around for hundreds of millennia, playing a key ...
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