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Sunday, 8 February 2015
The Dog Family: Coyotes and Red Wolves
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Coyote Grey wolves are found across the Northern Hemisphere, but they originated in Asia, only reaching the Americas via the Bering land...
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Saturday, 31 January 2015
Pliocene (Pt 3): Of Gazelles and Three-toed Horses
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Hipparion The Zanclean Flood may have been a catastrophe of epic proportions, but, so long as you were above where the flood waters eve...
Sunday, 25 January 2015
What is a Primate?
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Brown lemur In 2012 and 2013, I finished off the year by posting short(ish) responses to questions entered into search engines that had,...
Sunday, 18 January 2015
The Smell of Success
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One of the noticeable features of mammals, when compared to other vertebrates, is that they tend to have a highly developed sense of smell...
Sunday, 11 January 2015
The Dog Family: Wolves, Dogs, and Dingoes
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Eurasian wolf The best known and most familiar of the species in the dog family is surely the grey wolf ( Canis lupus ). This is not le...
Sunday, 4 January 2015
Claws of the Bear-Dogs
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Arctocyon primaevus Over the four or so years that this blog has been running, I have covered a number of discoveries of or about fossil...
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Sunday, 14 December 2014
New Mammal Species 2014
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Waiomys mamasae New species of animal are discovered every day. That isn't hyperbole; I mean it literally. I'm not sure of the e...
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