Science
Mammal ancestors moved in their own unique way – EurekAlert
A long-held hypothesis is that the mammal backbone evolved from a backbone that functioned similar to that of living reptiles. In a paper in Current Biology, a…
IMAGE: Photograph of a skeleton of the early non-mammalian synapsid (ancient mammal relative) Edaphosaurus on display at the Field Museum of Natural History.
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Credit: Photograph by Ken Angielczyk
The backbone is the Swiss Army Knife of mammal locomotion. It can function in all sorts of ways that allows living mammals to have remarkable diversity in their movements. They can run, swim, climb and fly all due, in part, to the extensive reorganization of their vertebral column, which occurred…
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