Two years ago a joint team from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) had in their hands three teeth from two gigantic mammals that had inhabited the ...

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Macrauchenia patachonica is neither a llama nor a horse, nor an elephant, according to an analysis Its nose, unlike that of most mammals, was right between the eyes, like an elephant's trunk. It ...

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Using a new approach for genome assembly of ancient DNA, researchers reconstructed a nearly complete mitochondrial DNA sequence from a long-extinct animal with no close modern relatives. Now, Michi ...

After the last of its kind died out about 12,000 years ago, a strange animal that stumped Charles Darwin is finally being added to the tree of life, according to a new study in the journal Nature ...

harles Darwin, Mr. Evolution himself, didn't know what to make of the fossils he saw in Patagonia so he sent them to his friend, the renowned paleontologist Richard Owen. Owen was stumped too. Little ...

On an elephant (or indeed a deinotherium) this nose would look fine. On a macrauchenia, however, it doesn't. It's like seeing a cat with a dorsal fin. Mother Nature has so many gifts to dole out but ...

Its nose, unlike that of most mammals, was right between the eyes, like an elephant’s trunk. It weighed about as much as a horse. Its neck is long, leading scientists to believe that this strange ...