• Late-Breaking Pleistocene Desert Woodrat News
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 04 08 at 7:04:36 am | 1 comment

    A woodrat in Utah’s Great Basin is surrounded by toxic juniper leaves, which is much of its diet. Credit: Denise Dearing, University of Utah

    As the U.S. Southwest grew warmer between 18,700 and 10,000 years ago, juniper trees vanished from what

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