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June 21, 2023 The distant ancestors of modern horses had hooved toes instead of a single hoof, which vanished over time, according to ...
July 9, 2021 Although the giant panda is in practice a herbivore, its masticatory system functions differently from the other herbivores. Through the processes of natural selection, the giant panda's dietary ...
Oct. 15, 2021 Researchers found that complex teeth, a hallmark of mammals, also evolved several times in reptiles, prompting the evolutionary success of plant-eating lizards. However, contrary to mammals their ...
Nov. 1, 2021 New examinations of skeletons and animal embryos have allowed researchers to discover how mammals developed protruding, flexible noses. This study contributes to uncovering the origin of ...
Mar. 2, 2022 A study into tooth wear in a group of wild Japanese macaques has significant implications for the study of human evolution, a new study has ...
Sep. 14, 2022 A team of scientists has discovered the earliest gibbon fossil, a find that helps fill a long-elusive evolutionary gap in the history of ...
Dec. 13, 2021 Tooth decay is a common and unfortunate problem for many of us, but two new studies show it is also an issue for other primates, as well as our fossil relatives and ...
Sep. 9, 2022 The skulls of tetrapods had fewer bones than extinct and living fish, limiting their evolution for millions of years, according to a latest ...
May 6, 2021 The origins of a pretty smile have long been sought in the fearsome jaws of living sharks which have been considered living fossils reflecting the ancestral condition for vertebrate tooth development ...
June 1, 2021 Researchers analyzed CT scans of nearly every living amphibian genus to reveal that frogs have lost teeth over 20 times during their evolution, more than any other vertebrate ...