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Many Mammals Have Evolved To Be Semi-Aquatic. Curiously, Echidnas May Have Gone The Other Way

An analysis of the interior of a single bone suggests its owner was probably an aquatic or semi-aquatic animal. Since the bone has been proposed to come from an ancestor of echidnas, or at least a ...
Eagle-Tribune

Learn about NH's semi-aquatic mammals

ATKINSON — Learn all about New Hampshire’s semi-aquatic mammals at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 18, at Kimball Public Library, 5 Academy Ave. Why have humans prized them for their fur? What special ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Single Prehistoric Bone Might Rewrite the History of the World’s Strangest Mammals

New research suggests that land-based echidnas descended from semi-aquatic mammals. Gunjan Pandey CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Between backward-facing-feet, nipple-less milk secretion and ...
Times-Standard

Cal Poly Humboldt professor finds a new opossum species

During an expedition to the Peruvian Andes in 2018, a team of researchers exploring Abiseo River National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, made an extraordinary discovery: a previously undocumented ...