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minus-squaresamus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-22 个月前It was also a cold-blooded mammal. EDIT: new information suggests they probably were not.
minus-squareKornblumenratte@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 个月前No, it wasn’t. Or to be exact, we don’t know, but it’s highly unlikely. In 2009, the bone growth pattern of Myotragus was thought to occur only in cold blooded animals, but in 2012 they found it is widespread in extant mammals as well.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 个月前Oh, that’s good to know! I wondered how a cold-blooded mammal could be a thing.
minus-squareHellsBelle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 个月前TIL there was a 5M year old cold-blooded mammal that humans killed off (but ofc). Today I was reminded that science grows as new discoveries are made. But we still killed the little beasties off. Nothing has changed there.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-22 个月前I actually missed the part that we killed them off. “Heh heh, look at the funny-faced little goats. Let’s kill 'em!” Jerks.
minus-squareWhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 个月前Probably because of capitalism.
It was also a cold-blooded mammal.
EDIT: new information suggests they probably were not.
No, it wasn’t. Or to be exact, we don’t know, but it’s highly unlikely. In 2009, the bone growth pattern of Myotragus was thought to occur only in cold blooded animals, but in 2012 they found it is widespread in extant mammals as well.
Oh, that’s good to know! I wondered how a cold-blooded mammal could be a thing.
TIL there was a 5M year old cold-blooded mammal that humans killed off (but ofc).Today I was reminded that science grows as new discoveries are made.
But we still killed the little beasties off. Nothing has changed there.
I actually missed the part that we killed them off. “Heh heh, look at the funny-faced little goats. Let’s kill 'em!” Jerks.
Probably because of capitalism.