Cantabrian cornice has experienced seven cooling and warming phases over past 41,000 years
... the species that predominated during cold periods were rodents and insectivores that were well-adapted to environments with only sparse vegetation. "When ... the Late Pleistocene, known as the Dryas III, forest-dwelling rodents and insectivores flourished and become more frequent in the associations", explains ...Rodent fossils allows to determine climate of the Iberian Peninsula 6 million years ago
... of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology of the University of Granada . His studied has concluded with the discovering of three new species of rodents and insectivores (Micromys caesaris, Blarinoides aliciae and Archaeodesmana elvirae) and the finding, for the first time in the region, of nine more species. ...