Did Tibet ‘train’ animals for the ice age?
Posted by staff / June 16, 2014 adjunct professorbiological sciencesTibetan foxUniversity of Southern CaliforniaXiaoming Wang
Researchers including lead author Xiaoming Wang, an adjunct professor of Earth sciences and biological sciences at the University of Southern California, report that a newly discovered 3- to 5-million-year-old Tibetan fox from the Himalayan Mountains is the likely ancestor of the living Arctic fox.
This evidence lends support to the idea that the evolution of present-day animals of the Arctic region is intimately connected to ancestors that first became adapted for life in cold regions in the high altitude environments of the Tibetan Plateau.
Full story at Futurity.
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