Sentences with phrase «modern mammals showing»
«We see the first wave of modern mammals showing up,» including ancestral primates and hoofed animals,» he adds.
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Ophiacodon probably isn't directly ancestral to modern mammals, and its «warm - blooded» characters show that it may have evolved it in parallel with mammals, which itself is interesting.
Several modern mammal groups such as rodents emerged after the dinosaur extinction, and the fossils show their first members were small.
Modern conservation efforts tend to center around large animals — such as tigers, elephants, and wolves — and top predators in peril, while Roopnarine and Angielczyk show that small amniotes (reptiles and ancient mammal relatives) were most vulnerable during the early phase of this long - ago period of extinction.
«Megaconus shows that many adaptations found in modern mammals were already tried by our distant, extinct relatives.