As with all life forms, elephants have evolved over time from ungulates to near ungulates or subungulates as they are called today. Their unusually shaped feet are quite similar to that of ...

Though paleontologists had found remains of Perissodactyla from as far back as the beginnings of the Eocene epoch, about 56 million years ago, their earlier evolution remained a mystery, says Ken ...

But, Rose says, the findings provide a window into what a common ancestor of all Perissodactyla would have looked like. "Many of Cambaytherium's features, like the teeth, the number of sacral ...

Matthew W. Colbert, Hesperaletes (Mammalia: Perissodactyla), a New Tapiroid from the Middle Eocene of Southern California, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol. 26 ...

Modern horses, rhinos, and tapirs belong to a biological group, or order, called Perissodactyla. Also known as "odd-toed ungulates," animals in the order have, as their name implies, an uneven number ...

PIETER MISSIAEN, GREGG F. GUNNELL, PHILIP D. GINGERICH, NEW BRONTOTHERIIDAE (MAMMALIA, PERISSODACTYLA) FROM THE EARLY AND MIDDLE EOCENE OF PAKISTAN WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR MAMMALIAN PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY, ...

Today’s horses, rhinos, and tapirs belong to an order called Perissodactyla. These “odd-toed ungulates” were named for the non-even number of toes on their back feet and a digestive system ...

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 ...

Modern horses, rhinos and tapirs belong to a biological group, or order, called Perissodactyla.How and when this order evolved has been a mystery, although fossils from as far back as 56 million ...