First evidence of poisonous shrews with an envenomation apparatus

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-116

  Cuenca Bescós, Gloria ^a   Rofes, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atapuerca specimens; Envenomation apparatus; Poisonous shrews

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY MASS; CAVE DEPOSIT; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; PLEISTOCENE; PREY SIZE; SMALL MAMMAL;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; ENVENOMATION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOSSIL ANIMAL; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; MANDIBLE; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; POISONOUS ANIMAL; PREDATION; PREY; SHREW;

ANIMALS; BITE FORCE; EVOLUTION; INCISOR; MANDIBLE; SHREWS; VENOMS;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; EURASIA; EUROPE; SIERRA DE ATAPUERCA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

MAMMALIA; SOLENODON; SORICIDAE;

EID: 33846301085     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0163-5     Document Type: Article

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