Nevertheless more strange ancient Morsopiles rewrite history books

A team of UNSW scientists has found the remains of fossils three meat -mausoleys, who were alive millions of years ago and were previously unknown to science.

Ever since he was walking around South America via Antarctica almost 55 million years ago, Marsepellis has called Australia home.

It was back before he returned, Gondwana was completely broken and the world map looked a bit different.

Antarctica was not the place where it is now and today we know that instead of the frozen Westland, it fought against lush, moderate rainfall.

Once the Antarctic Land Bridge disappeared, it trapped the ancestors of the modern Australian Morsapillis here.

And they are planning development.

“Beginning that a small group of ancestors is considered to be considered a small group of ancestors, Morsopille life has exploded in Australia,” says Dr. Timethe Churchill, the main author of the study.

“Hundreds and hundreds of species, which are now extinct, are ready to fill the galaxy of environmental niche.”

Three new Morsopile Abu Dhabi

About 25 million years ago, which was now moving from the end of Olugosin at the end of northern Australia to the early Moussen.

Today, instead of the barren grass fields in the region, this area was relatively hot and humid, which is supported that can be open as well as in the closed forest areas.

In the same environment, the three newly -made meat -e -marswills made their home. His statement was made in an article published by UNSW researchers this week Historic.

These “malleodectids” (literally “hammer’s teeth”) when they are known, are prepared to larger, hammer -shaped premiums so that their soft meat can break the hard shells of snap.

The work is based on a former UNSW analysis, which has yet to be found in the same area with hammer-dental marasoplas-10 million years after the group wandered around the area around the Raverlag area in North Queensland.

This shows that all of this set of lazy lovers, Morsopilles, was very diverse and existed millions of years before speculation.

Dr. Churchill has analyzed that the teeth have also explained how this creature is developed and suggests that the slow food skills have gradually developed in millions of years.

Their diet changed gradually, as they had teeth, perhaps with the increase in the availability and diversity of some types of hard -body hunting, such as slow, such as climate, wet, wet, and forests became abusive.

“Mellyodactoids was not just a branch of a short life that appeared when the Australian atmosphere was on its way,” says Dr. Churchill. “Instead, they were a long -term lineage that occupied numerous carnivores for at least 15 million years, which today did not include some special roles through Australian Marsepellis, such as slow food.”

A diverse family tree

Dr. Churchill has found that the three new meat -mausoleys were between 110 and 250 grams, which is in size like modern sugar glider.

These animals shared the jungle with a wide range of other marswills of different sizes, which were settled in a wide range of environmental niche.

They now include medium -sized mausophals, small hunters around the size of modern coals, and even cats to leopard tigers, like the extinct lion (or “thalassen”).

Dr. Churchill says, “The emerging image is eliminating the old ideas that Australia dominated the ‘simple’ Mospels, while the crawling animals ruled the ecosystem.”

But the story of how the Morsophalls we are seeing today is not complete.

Researchers are still trying to work, for example, how has this niche filled out that nowadays the smallest meat is like Morsophailes Dinnarts and Plangelles.

“Whenever I open a sample drawer, it seems that another secret life comes into life – and it is becoming clear that we have just begun to expose this hidden diversity.”