University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology

11,000-year-old mammoth tooth found on golf course

On Deadline (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009

A groundskeeper at a Michigan country club found an 11,000-year-old-tooth from a mammoth while cutting weeds on the golf course, The Detroit News reports. Scott Beld, a research specialist at University of Michigan's Museum of Paleontology, tells the paper the tooth appears to be from a Columbian mammoth, which can grow as tall as 13 feet. The 10-pound tooth appears to be from a female adolescent,...

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Warming increases biodiversity

Heliogenic Climate Change (Free subscription) | 23/08/2009

"A global warming span from 53 million to 47 million years ago strongly influenced the biodiversity of western North America, geologists said. The warming spurred a biodiversity boom of plants and animals, the researchers reported this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Today, the middle of Wyoming is a vast desert, and a few antelope and deer are all you see,"...

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Biodiversity boomed during global warming

Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009

DENVER, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- A global warming span from 53 million to 47 million years ago strongly influenced the biodiversity of western North America, geologists said. The warming spurred a biodiversity boom of plants and animals, the researchers reported this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Today, the middle of Wyoming is a vast desert, and a few antelope and deer are all...