Sentences with phrase «other giant mammals»

Woolly mammoths disappeared from Siberia and North America about 10,000 years ago, along with other giant mammals that went extinct at the end of the last glacial period.

Not exact matches

A scientist turns up new clues to the disappearance of North America's giant beavers, saber - toothed cats and other large mammals

In addition to Monty Python's immortal song, others include «Mammals» by the band They Might Be Giants, John Boswell's album «Science Is the Poetry of Reality» and many songs by Tom Lehrer.

In North America, the Ice Age was marked by the mass extinction of several dozen genera of large mammals, including mammoths, mastodons, American horses, Western camels, two types of deer, ancient bison, giant beaver, giant bears, sabre - toothed cats, giant bears, American cheetahs, and many other animals, as well as plants.

Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

A new review by an international team of scientists, including Stony Brook University Professor Liliana M. Dávalos, reports an analysis of the incredibly diverse «lost world» of Caribbean fossils that includes giant rodents, vampire bats, enigmatic monkeys, ground sloths, shrews and dozens of other ancient mammals.

Weta, giant flightless grasshoppers native to New Zealand, ingest and disperse seeds --- an ecological role played by small mammals in other parts of the world.

«The AIS can become a vital tool in helping to protect whale and other marine mammal species, particularly in locations such as the Arctic where shipping is potentially on the increase,» said Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, Director of WCS's Ocean Giants Program.

Others, such as the marsupial mammals and giant flightless birds, were uniquely Australian.

Chinese conservation measures to protect the charismatic giant panda in the wild have also benefitted other threatened species, including birds, mammals and amphibians, according to new Duke University - led study.

Chinese conservation measures to protect the charismatic giant panda have also benefited other threatened species, including birds, mammals and amphibians.

Wright and her colleagues from Finland and Australia first showed that the greater bamboo lemurs are equipped with highly complex and specialized teeth, just like giant pandas — the only other mammal capable of feeding on culm.

A short intense trip to Manu staying 3 nights at the comfortable Manu Wildlife Centre This trip has several major wildlife attractions — the Blanquillo Macaw and Parrot lick, a Tapir lick where in the comfort of mattresses and mosquito nets you may watch the largest of all South American Land Mammals visit, plus Oxbow Lakes with floating Catamarans for observing Giant Otters and other lake - side wildlife and two walk - up canopy towers to get you into the rainforest canopy.

Of course, the park has an abundance of other mammals as well, such as all the favorites of giant otters, sloths, jaguar, and capybara.

«Understanding why the giant panda has such striking coloration has been a long - standing problem in biology that has been difficult to tackle because virtually no other mammal has this appearance, making analogies difficult,» says lead author Tim Caro from the UC Davis Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology.