Biologists Propose New Grouping For Mammals: Key Deletion Offers Evidence For "Afrotheria" Date: February 2, 2001 Source: University Of Cincinnati ...

An international research team showed that a group of highly divergent mammals known as Afrotheria and distantly related, but ecologically very similar mammals independently evolved similar inner ...

These includes elephants, aardvarks, and others from a group that originated in Africa, known as the Afrotheria. Testicles function best when slightly below body temperature. But we can’t say ...

Afrotheria are an excellent case to study evolutionary changes in size through time as they vary so much in body mass: from the five ton elephant to a few grams in some tenrecs.

Their paper, published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, investigates patterns of evolutionary change in a group of mammals known as Afrotheria.This charismatic group of mainly African ...

Another of the three main groups of placental mammals is the Afrotheria, which includes elephants. Press release issued: 15 February 2016. The roots of the mammalian family tree have long been ...

Before that, a very different group of mammals – the Afrotheria or “African beasts” – lived on the continent. This superorder, or clade, consists of several creatures you’d recognise today.