Friday, August 28, 2020

Mammal relative learned to hibernate before Age of Dinosaurs

SCIENCE-HIBERNATION/

The tusks of a stoutly built plant-eating mammal relative that inhabited Antarctica 250 million years ago are providing the oldest-known evidence that animals resorted to hibernation-like states to get through lean times such as polar winters.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/mammal-ancestor-hibernation-1.5703316?cmp=rss

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