Like a hairless ‘dog’ that laid eggs: the oldest ancestor of mammals is found in Mallorca
Around 270 million years ago, the territory of what we know as Mallorca was not an island and was not ...
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The oldest ancestor of mammals is found in Mallorca, Spain
50 million years before the appearance of the first mammals, the gorgonopsian roamed the Earth. It belonged to the therapsids, ...
They discover in Mallorca the oldest ancestor of all mammals: like a hairless husky with large fangs
It is between 270 and 280 million years old and is a gorgonopsid, the first predator to sport powerful saber ...
Why tropical mammals flee from the full moon
More than half of the 86 species of tropical mammals from three continents observed by researchers reduced their activity to ...
What is the difference between mind and brain?
The brain is a tangible organ that can be touched, felt, measured and evaluated. It is pure biology. The mind, ...
Toothless lemurs or one-handed macaques: how disabled primates survive in the wild
Nico was an adult male blue-diademed monkey living on a small island in the Quirimbas Archipelago in Mozambique. He was ...
The enigma of the snow leopard, the super predator that also eats grass
The snow leopard is a felid within the order Carnivora. But the study of the feces of several specimens has ...
‘Rakus’, the first orangutan who has been seen healing a wound with a medicinal plant
The Fibraurea tinctoria It is a climbing plant found in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Many of the local communities ...
Need for critical minerals threatens Africa's great apes
A total of 178,816 great apes, 34% of those left in Africa, live in areas near a mine or with ...
Remains of reptilian skin found that allowed animals to conquer the earth
In the Carboniferous, a geological period from 359 to 298 million years ago, some tetrapods came out of the water. ...
