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March 19, 2015

Protein sequencing solves Darwinian mystery of 'strange' South American mammals
New York NY (SPX) Mar 19, 2015
Scientists have resolved pieces of a nearly 200-year-old evolutionary puzzle surrounding the group of mammals that Charles Darwin called the "strangest animals ever discovered." New research led by the American Museum of Natural History, the Natural History Museum in London, and the University of York shows that South America's so-called "native ungulates" - the last of which disappeared only 10,000 years ago - are actually related to mammals like horses rather than elephants and other species wit ... read more

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