Chipmunk specimens in the Field Museum's collections. Tiny rodents living in a major American city are unique examples of evolution playing out in real time. “Museum collections allow you to time ...
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Chicago's rodents are evolving to handle city living
In general, evolution is a long, slow process of tiny changes passed down over generations, resulting in new adaptations and even new species over thousands or millions of years. But when living ...
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Fossils Suggest That Some Ancient Burrowing Bees Made Their Homes in Rodent Skulls
While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...
By comparing the skulls of chipmunks and voles from the Chicago area collected over the past 125 years, the research team found evidence that the rodents have been adapting to life in an increasingly ...
In general, evolution is a long, slow process of tiny changes passed down over generations, resulting in new adaptations and even new species over thousands or millions of years. But when living ...
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