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Madagascar Hippos Were Forest Dwellers – New Study

AncientPages.com | July 8, 2023

Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Extinct dwarf hippos that once roamed Madagascar lived in forests rather than open grasslands preferred by common hippos on mainland Africa, researchers

Plantar (underneath) view of feet of a four-toed tapir (left) and a one-toed horse (right) by Nuria Melisa Morales-García. In the middle, a reconstruction of the extinct three-toed horse Hipparion, by Karolina Suchan-Okulska. Overall design by Morales-García.

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Modern Horses Have Lost Their Additional Toes, Scientists Confirm

AncientPages.com | June 21, 2023

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The distant ancestors of modern horses had hooved toes instead of a single hoof, which vanished over time, according to researchers. The animals,