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University of New Mexico Professor Felisa A. Smith was recognized recently for her contributions to the paleontology community with her selection as a Fellow of the Paleontological Society. The Paleontological Society is an international nonprofit...

University of New Mexico Department of Biology Professor Felisa Smith was recently elected to the board as president-elect of the International Biogeography Society (IBS). Founded in 2001, the IBS is the primary forum for biographers worldwide. The IBS...

UNM Professor Dr. Felisa Smith is co-organizer of a special issue released online today in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA. The issue is designed to understand the decline of megafauna and consequences of large-bodied mammals around the world.

Dinosaurs dominated the landscape for more than 100 million years, but all that remains today are bones. This has made it difficult to solve a long-standing and contentious puzzle: were dinosaurs cold-blooded animals that lumbered along or swift warm-

Researchers have demonstrated that the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago paved the way for mammals to get bigger - about a thousand times bigger than they had been. The study titled, "The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals," ...