Humans Disrupting 66 Million-Year-Old Fundamental Feature of Ecosystems – “This Hasn't Happened Before” - SciTechDaily

Diet-size relationship found across deep time, multiple vertebrate groups. According to a new study, the U-shaped association between diet and size in modern land mammals could also stand for "universal," as the relationship covers at least 66 million years a…

An illustration featuring mammalian herbivores (green), omnivores (purple), invertivores (yellow) and carnivores (red). Each column includes mammal species lost in the past 2.58 million years (light … [+9073 chars]

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