The Mammal-Like Reptiles of South Africa: and the Origin of Mammals. Dr. Robert Broom. (Issued under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Research Board, Union of South ...

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The scientists on the team, who are from the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Katsuyama, the Ono City Board of Education and elsewhere, also said a fossil of a mammal-like reptile has been ...

Within the synapsids, mammals arose from the mammal-like reptiles. The main evolutionary trend during the Mesozoic was the huge radiation of diapsids. The diapsids are a monophyletic group - including ...

Marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs are not dinosaurs. Nor is Dimetrodon or other reptiles in the same group (previously called 'mammal-like reptiles' and now called ...

Amniotes split into the sauropsids (leading to birds and reptiles) and synapsids (leading to mammal-like reptiles). These small early mammals developed hair, homeothermy, and lactation (red lines).

(Yes, even dolphins.) But in the churn of natural selection, some mammals ended up with appendages that look like they should be found on a reptile, bird, or insect. That’s convergent evolution ...