Archive for March 7th, 2013

Fossil Critter Pee Reveals Past Climate Change

But that’s nothing to Brian Chase, a researcher at Montpelier University in France. Chase prefers pee of a somewhat older vintage: the crystallized pee of the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) that dates to some 55,000 years ago. Chase uses the information gathered from crystallized hyrax pee in southern Africa to study Earth’s climate thousands of years […]