Mammals didn't play by the rules of modeling on where they
migrated to survive last ice age, says UO researcher
Leave it to long-dead short-tailed shrew and flying
squirrels to outfox climate-modelers trying to predict future habitats.
Evidence from the fossil record shows that gluttonous insect-eating
shrew didn't live where a species distribution technique drawn by biologists
put it 20,000 years ago to survive the reach of glaciers, says University of
Oregon geologist Edward B. Davis. The shrew is not alone.