Anteaters evolved twelve times, claim scientists who carried out a detailed survey of animals that eat ants and termites to see where they fitted in the evolutionary tree of mammals. Anteaters are found in all three main subdivisions of mammals – monotremes, marsupials and placentals, and are found in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Australia. […]
Ghosts reveal ancestor, according to reports in Science vol. 339 p656 DOI: 10.1126/science.1233999 and p662 DOI: 10.1126/science.1229237 8 February 2013, and Nature News and ScienceDaily 7 February 2013. An international team of scientists has completed an enormous project that collates anatomical details of 86 species of placental mammals, including 40 fossil mammals, together with genetic […]