Surviving an ice age: Mammals didn't play by the rules of modeling on where they migrated to survive last ice age
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 - 14:31
in Biology & Nature
Leave it to long-dead short-tailed shrew and flying squirrels to outfox climate-modelers trying to predict future habitats. Evidence from the fossil record shows that gluttonous insect-eating shrew didn't live where a species distribution technique drawn by biologists put it 20,000 years ago to survive the reach of glaciers. The shrew is not alone.