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In 2014, physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio found the fossil in the town of Paraiso do Sul in Brazil's southernmost Rio Grande do Sul state. He donated it to a local university in 2021, kicking ...
Mesonychia ("middle claws") is an extinct taxon of small- to large-sized carnivorous ungulates related to artiodactyls. Mesonychians first appeared in the early Paleocene, went into a sharp decline at the end of the Eocene, and died out entirely when the last genus, Mongolestes, became extinct in the early Oligocene. In Asia, the record of ...
Mesonychidae (meaning "middle claws") is an extinct family of small to large-sized omnivorous-carnivorous mammals.They were endemic to North America and Eurasia during the Early Paleocene to the Early Oligocene, and were the earliest group of large carnivorous mammals in Asia.
Researchers have uncovered fossils of giant predator worms, some of Earth’s earliest carnivorous animals that roamed the seas 518 million years ago.
Vultures are a result of convergent evolution: both Old World vultures and New World vultures eat carrion, but Old World vultures are in the eagle and hawk family (Accipitridae) and use mainly eyesight for discovering food; the New World vultures are of obscure ancestry, and some use the sense of smell as well as sight in hunting. Birds of both ...
As with all life forms, elephants have evolved over time from ungulates to near ungulates or subungulates as they are called today. Their unusually shaped feet are quite similar to that of ...
Chevrotains, or mouse-deer, are diminutive, even-toed ungulates that make up the family Tragulidae, and are the only living members of the infraorder Tragulina.The 10 extant species are placed in three genera, [1] [2] but several species also are known only from fossils. [3]
As of today, dinosaurs identified as having inhabited Alaska include: Troodon, a small bird-like dinosaur; Dromaeosaurus, a medium-sized carnivore; Edmontosaurus, a large, horny-beaked plant eater ...