Search results
May 21, 2007 · Evolution of marine mammals: Back to the sea after 300 million years. Mark D. Uhen. First published: 21 May 2007. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.20545. Citations: 144. Sections. PDF. Tools. Share. Abstract. The fossil record demonstrates that mammals re-entered the marine realm on at least seven separate occasions.
- Mark D. Uhen
- 144
- 2007
- 21 May 2007
Oct 18, 2012 · University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. 2012. 205 pp., $49.95 (cloth), $25.62 (Kindle). ISBN 9780520270572. Annalisa Berta leads readers through a vast range of topics regarding the evolution of marine mammals in Return to the Sea: The Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals. In this volume geared towards non-specialists (one might ...
- Mark D. Uhen
- muhen@gmu.edu
- 2013
People also ask
When did mammals evolve?
Who are the ancestors of mammals?
When did the first animals leave the oceans?
How did mammals evolve during the Paleocene?
Apr 16, 2009 · Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) are an order of mammals that originated about 50 million years ago in the Eocene epoch. Even though all modern cetaceans are obligate aquatic mammals, early cetaceans were amphibious, and their ancestors were terrestrial artiodactyls, similar to small deer.
- J. G. M. Thewissen, Lisa Noelle Cooper, Lisa Noelle Cooper, John C. George, Sunil Bajpai
- 2009
The evolution of mammals has passed through many stages since the first appearance of their synapsid ancestors in the Pennsylvanian sub-period of the late Carboniferous period. By the mid- Triassic , there were many synapsid species that looked like mammals.
Due to Erwin’s research, it is now known that the first animal evolved during the Ediacaran and not the Cambrian like previously thought. By studying Permian fossils, Erwin has also contributed to our understanding of why the Permian Extinction—the largest extinction in Earth’s history—came to be.
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 ...
Both morphological and molecular data tell us that the ancestors of the marine mammals were terrestrial, and that their various marine lifestyles have evolved independently at least seven times! Each lineage shows shared as well as unique evolutionary solutions to the challenges of living in water affecting their breathing, locomotion, feeding ...
