After dinosaurs, mammals rise but their genomes get smaller

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 06:07 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Evidence buried in the chromosomes of animals and plants strongly suggests only one group - mammals - have seen their genomes shrink after the dinosaurs' extinction. What's more, that trend continues today, say Indiana University Bloomington scientists in the first issue of a new journal, Genome Biology and Evolution...

Read the whole article on

More from

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net