TILL within the last few years palæontologists and zoologists were being continually startled by the discovery of strange forms of extinct Ungulates which rewarded the researches conducted in the ...

New research shows that South America's native ungulates, or hooved mammals ... Protein sequencing solves Darwinian mystery of strange South American mammals Date: March 18, 2015 ...

Weird Science. Proteins Show How Darwin's 'Strangest Animals' Evolved. ... The hippo-like Taxodon shown in this artist's conception was part of a group of animals known as South American ungulates.

In 2015, a study of the proteins inside the ancient bones suggested a close kinship to perissodactyla, an order of “odd-toed ungulates” that includes tapirs, rhinoceroses, horses and their ilk.

To 19th century British naturalist Charles Darwin, they were the strangest animals yet discovered, one looking like a hybrid of a hippo, rhino and rodent and another resembling a humpless camel ...

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Part of a group of more than 250 mammals known as the South American ungulates, the creatures lived on the continent for around 60 million years before disappearing around 12,000 years ago.

Mesonychid, though, are arguably the weirdest ungulates to ever hoof it around North America. ... It’s a bit weird to think of a meat-eating hoofed animal, though maybe it shouldn’t be.

“Fitting South American ungulates to the mammalian family tree has always been a major challenge for palaeontologists, because anatomically they were these weird mosaics, exhibiting features found in ...

To 19th-century British naturalist Charles Darwin, they were the strangest animals yet discovered -- one looking like a hybrid of a hippo, rhino and rodent, and another resembling a humpless camel ...