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News Release 11-008
Putting the Dead to Work
Conservation paleobiologists dig deep to solve today's ecological, evolutionary questions
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![Cover of the January, 2011 issue of the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.](/news/mmg/media/images/conservation_paleo1_f.jpg)
Conservation paleobiologists are looking at ecology and evolution in new ways.
Credit: Trends in Ecology and Evolution
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![Illustrations of the extinct Hawaiian Rail and Hawaiian Spotted Rail or Hawaiian Crake.](/news/mmg/media/images/conservation_paleo2_f.jpg)
The Hawaiian Rail and Hawaiian Spotted Rail or Hawaiian Crake are now extinct.
Credit: John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912)
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![Map of North America during the Pleistocene 12,000 years ago showing glaciation.](/news/mmg/media/images/conservation_paleo3_f.jpg)
This map shows how North America appeared just over 12,000 years ago. During the Pleistocene, repeated glaciations occurred.
Credit: Ron Blakey, NAU
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![Photo of a fossil plant leaf that is likely a member of a family that includes poinsettias.](/news/mmg/media/images/conservation_paleo4_f.jpg)
Fossil leaf from a plant that's likely a member of the family that includes poinsettias.
Credit: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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![corals and other fossils.](/news/mmg/media/images/conservation_paleo5_f.jpg)
Corals and other fossils from long-ago seas tell scientists much about life on Earth today.
Credit: Polish Academy of Sciences
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![Photo of an arctic fox.](/news/mmg/media/images/conservation_paleo6_f.jpg)
The arctic fox once lived in a much wider ecological range; climate change drove it north.
Credit: U.S. FWS
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