https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/08/found-humanitys-great-grand-rat/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 05:23:31 -0400<![CDATA[All of that information went into a gigantic Web-based database called MorphoBank, in which the scientists recorded more than 4,500 individual traits, both physical and behavioral, culled from 86 placental mammal species, about half of them extinct. “I was working in one cell [of the database],” recalls Novacek, “when another was suddenly populated with information that was being entered in real time by a collaborator from Brazil. It was really exciting.”]]>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:10:31 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/08/found-humanitys-great-grand-rat-n280952