How marine biologists are using elephant seals as nature's 'artificial intelligence'
Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart ...
Natural History Museum%2c London1 年
Dwarfing of fossil mammals on Mediterranean islands
These dwarf mammals are remarkable examples of rapid evolutionary change. For example, some dwarf elephants - such as those that lived on Sicily and Cyprus - were only about one metre tall as adults, ...
Natural History Museum%2c London4 年
Fossil mammal collection
Fossil jaw of Missourium theristrocaulodon, an extinct relative of the elephant. Unearthed in 1840 by Albert Koch on the banks of a river in Missouri. The Museum's fossil mammal collection contains an ...
Center for Biological Diversity4 年
SAVING AFRICA'S ELEPHANTS
The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape ... On top of this, loss of habitat, human-elephant conflict, and political instability provide significant long-term ...
Center for Biological Diversity7 年
SAVING AFRICA'S ELEPHANTS
The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape ... On top of this, loss of habitat, human-elephant conflict, and political instability provide significant long-term ...
Foraging seals enable scientists to measure fish abundance across the vast Pacific Ocean
A new study led by UC Santa Cruz marine biologist Roxanne Beltran to be published as the February 14 cover story for Science ...
Rose-Tu’s baby is almost due; here’s when Portland can expect its newest elephant calf ...
Rose-Tu, the zoo’s beloved Asian elephant, is 20 months pregnant, meaning the arrival of Portland’s first gray, trunked baby in more than a decade may not be so far away. But will it be a Valentine’s ...