/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1741/all en /newsroom/channels/news/crocodile-evolution-rebooted-ice-age-glaciations-328615 <p>Crocodiles are resilient animals from a lineage that has survived for over 200 million years. Skilled swimmers, crocodiles can travel long distances and live in freshwater or marine environments. But they can’t roam far on land. American crocodiles (<i>Crocodylus acutus</i>) are found in the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of the Neotropics but they arrived in the Pacific before Panama existed, according to <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.14139">researchers from ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University</a>.</p> Mon, 15 Feb 2021 21:33:32 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 256622 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-led-research-unravels-mystery-how-early-animals-survived-ice-age-303012 <p>How did life survive the most severe ice age? A ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University-led research team has found the first direct evidence that glacial meltwater provided a crucial lifeline to eukaryotes during Snowball Earth, when the oceans were cut off from life-giving oxygen, answering a question puzzling scientists for years.</p> Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:27:54 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 189789 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/study-oceans%E2%80%99-past-raises-worries-about-their-future-228777 Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:11:50 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 18782 at /newsroom