4 news posts in Frontiers in Mammal Science

Bottlenose dolphins in the Adriatic Sea seem to be heavily reliant on trawlers for food

Up to 76% of bottom trawlers are followed by bottlenose dolphins scavenging in their wake, suggesting there isn’t enough prey to hunt elsewhere

Discovery of ‘weird looking’ otter poo reveals how these animals shape nearby ecologies

Scientists found scat from river otters teeming with parasites that infect otters’ prey, suggesting that otters may be important players in local food webs

Life sciences

03 Jun 2025

Ancient collagen can help identify a 'wombat the size of a hippo' in the fossil record

Scientists find new markers to identify species from fragments of fossilized bone and help us understand mysterious megafauna extinctions

Clues to mysterious disappearance of North America’s large mammals 50,000 years ago found within ancient bone collagen

Dr Mariya Antonosyan, Dr Torben Rick, and Prof Nicole Boivin are co-authors of a new Frontiers in Mammal Science article in which they used new methods to identify fossil bone fragments housed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. The insights they gained could help scientists better understand the causes and consequences of large mammal extinction.