Fossil tooth of a sambar deer, from which a tooth enamel sample was taken for the zinc isotope analysis. This species of deer is still found today in Southeast Asia, and Laos specifically.

"We normally find lots of deer fossils, for example, but as you go up the food chain, you find fewer and fewer carnivores like the bear." Examinations unveiled that the tooth belonged to an ...

We are studying the effect of dramatic environmental changes over the last 800,000 years on the origin and diversification of dwarf elephants and dwarf deer. This work forms a natural experiment in ...