paleontology

1. November 2, 2023

   Elephants: Earth’s giant climate change canaries

   U-M researcher Bill Sanders has devoted his 40-year research career to tracking 60 million years of Afro-Arabian proboscidean — elephants and their ordinal relatives — evolution.

2. June 23, 2022

   Mastodon tusk chemical analysis reveals evidence of migration

   Around 13,200 years ago, a roving male mastodon died in a bloody mating-season battle with a rival in what today is northeast Indiana, according to the first study to document the annual migration of an individual animal from an extinct species.

3. June 2, 2016

   More than 13M museum specimens moving to new U-M facility

   Movers have begun hauling more than 13 million museum specimens from U-M’s zoology, paleontology and anthropology collections to a state-of-the-art collections and research facility south of campus.

4. November 1, 2013

   Global warming led to dwarfism in mammals — twice

   Mammal body size decreased significantly during at least two ancient global warming events, a new finding that suggests a similar outcome is possible in response to human-caused climate change, according to a University of Michigan paleontologist and his colleagues.