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As that bipedal ape evolved into what would become us, other mammals came and went. Most had to adapt to yet another global climate change about 2.5 million years ago, triggered in part by the ...
- Rick Gore
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The first modern mammals had evolved by the end of the Mesozoic Era, 66 million years ago. During the Paleogene period (66 million to 23 million years ago), mammals underwent a period of tremendous diversification called an adaptive radiation.
Birds arrived comparatively late. on Planet Earth. First came insects, in the unimaginably distant past. For over 100 million years or more they ruled the skies. But these were mere pioneers of ...
May 21, 2007 · Marine Mammal Diversity. Living groups of marine mammals vary greatly in their diversity. Rice (1998; Table 1 therein) reports that living Cetacea include 83 species in 39 genera; living Pinnipedia include 36 species in 21 genera; and Recent Sirenia include 5 species in 3 genera. Since then, several new species of cetaceans have been described ...
- Mark D. Uhen
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The hunt for the ancestors of living birds began with a specimen of Archaeopteryx, the first known bird, discovered in the early 1860s. Like birds, it had feathers along its arms and tail, but unlike living birds, it also had teeth and a long bony tail. Furthermore, many of the bones in Archaeopteryx ‘s hands, shoulder girdles, pelvis, and ...
Mar 21, 2012 · When did scientists first propose that marine mammals evolved from land-living mammals? What findings led to this conclusion?
