Jan 30, 2016 | Conservation Biology, Mammal Evolution, Natural History Blog
I’ve always been dismayed at how much humans living in the US deplore opossums (Didelphis virginianus). I don’t understand this. They are, evolutionarily speaking, true survivors – the only marsupial species that remains in the US from the...
Nov 18, 2014 | Mammal Evolution, Natural History Blog
On November 29th, the Smithsonian Channel will air a special entitled “How to Clone a Woolly Mammoth”. This episode is based on the remarkable 2013 discovery in Siberia of an almost complete woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius); they named her Buttercup....
