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By Mike Cummings November 2, 2020 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Filikomys primaevus’ powerful shoulders and elbows suggest it was a burrowing mammal. Art by Misaki Ouchida. The fossil remains of several small mammals discovered in tightly packed clusters in western Montana provide the earliest evidence of social behavior in mammals, according to a new study co-authored by a Yale scientist.  The fossils, which are about 75.5 million years old but exquisitely preserved, offer a rare glimpse into mammalian behavior durin...

Stephen D. Butz’s book “Shays’ Settlement in Vermont” (History Press, 2017) reveals a little-known side of the Shays’ Rebellion story that played out in a final confrontation in Sheffield in 1787. When Perez Hamlin and other Regulators yielded to a superior Massachusetts militia force that chilly February day, instigators of the farmers’ revolt including Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays were elsewhere, sheltering on a mountaintop north of Arlington, Vt., on the New York border. That location has become an active archaeological site. Butz merges scarce docum...