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Our ancestors evolved faster after dinosaur extinction (University College London)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jun 2016
(Source. University College London) ... Lead researcher, Dr Thomas Halliday (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment), said ... 'In particular, we found a group called Laurasiatheria quickly increased their body size and ecological diversity, setting them on a path that would result in a modern group containing mammals as diverse as bats, cats, rhinos, whales, cows, pangolins, shrews and hedgehogs.' ... Links ... Flickr). Media contact. Bex Caygill. Tel....

Protein sequencing solves Darwinian mystery of strange South American mammals (Natural History Museum)

Edit noodls 07 Apr 2015
(Source. Natural History Museum). Bone collagen study reveals that extinct South American ungulates are closely related to horses and rhinos ... Published today in the journal Nature, the findings are based on fossil protein sequences, which allow researchers to peek back in time up to 10 times farther than they can with DNA ... This makes them part of Laurasiatheria, one of the major groups of placental mammals ... Notes for editors ... (noodl....

Strange mammals' family tree mystery solved (Natural History Museum)

Edit noodls 20 Mar 2015
(Source. Natural History Museum). A strange group of mammals lived 10,000 years ago in South America. Some of them had a puzzling combination of rodent, hippo and whale-like features - Charles Darwin called them the 'strangest animals ever discovered' ... This makes them part of Laurasiatheria, one of the major groups of placental mammals ... This research was published in the journal Nature Share this. distributed by ... (noodl. 27397244) ....

Protein the clue to solving a Darwinian mystery (University of York)

Edit noodls 18 Mar 2015
(Source. University of York). Posted on 18 March 2015. Scientists at the University of York provided the key to solving the evolutionary puzzle surrounding what Charles Darwin called the 'strangest animals ever discovered' ... Previously, attempts by scientists to pinpoint the origin of animals using morphology-based analysis and ancient DNA, had failed ... This makes them part of Laurasiatheria, one of the major groups of placental mammals....

Retroviral envelope syncytin capture in an ancestrally diverged mammalian clade for placentation in the primitive Afrotherian tenrecs

Edit PNAS 24 Sep 2014
Abstract ... Syncytins have been identified in Euarchontoglires (primates, rodents, Leporidae) and Laurasiatheria (Carnivora, ruminants) placental mammals ... They belong to the superorder Afrotheria, an early lineage that diverged from Euarchotonglires and Laurasiatheria 100 Mya, during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution ... ....
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