Tag: mammal
Researchers Overturn Hypothesis That Ancient Mammal Ancestors Moved Like Modern Lizards
The backbone is the Swiss Army Knife of mammal locomotion. It can function in all sorts of ways that allows living mammals to have remarkable diversity in their movements.
African diamond mine reveals dinosaur and large mammal tracks
In a surprise turn of events, one of the largest diamond mines in Africa, Catoca in Angola, contains 118 million year old dinosaur, crocodile and large mammal tracks. The mammal tracks show a raccoon-sized animal, during a time when most were no bigger than today’s rats.