- Afroinsectiphilia, and may help to
characterize the
ancestral body type of
afrotherians.
Since the 1990s,
increasing molecular and
anatomical data have been...
- This
article records new taxa of
fossil mammals of
every kind that are
scheduled to be
described during the year 2025, as well as
other significant discoveries...
-
Teeth are
common to most vertebrates, but
mammalian teeth are
distinctive in
having a
variety of
shapes and functions. This
feature first arose among early...
- A
tenrec (/ˈtɛnrɛk/) is a
mammal belonging to any
species within the
afrotherian family Tenrecidae,
which is
endemic to Madagascar.
Tenrecs are a very...
- The
major clades are coloured:
marsupials (magenta),
xenarthrans (orange),
afrotherians (red),
laurasiatherians (green), and
euarchontoglirans (blue)....
- them to
escape from predators. They are the only
extant terrestrial afrotherians in the
Middle East.
Hyraxes typically live in
groups of 10–80 animals...
-
shown not only
fossil evidence for the
inclusion of
paenungulates as
afrotherians but also any
morphological similarities between paenungulates and perissodactyls...
- and seals, as well as in
lineages of
other land mammals, such as the
afrotherians (elephants, aardvarks, etc.),
xenarthrans (armadillos, anteaters, and...
-
among other Afrotherians. It is now
known that
Perissodactyls are
members of Euungulata,
which are only
distantly related to
other Afrotherians. In remarking...
-
coding DNA sequences. The
other major clades are colored:
marsupials (magenta),
xenarthrans (orange),
afrotherians (red), and
laurasiatherians (green)....
