Sentences with phrase «modern mammals reached»

To that end, new evidence supports a theory that some experts once considered unlikely: namely, that the forerunners of Madagascar's modern mammals reached the island millions of years ago by drifting from the African mainland across the Mozambique Channel on giant rafts of vegetation ripped from the shore and launched out to sea by violent storms.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z