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Oldest fossil remains of the enigmatic pig-footed bandicoot show rapid herbivorous evolution
The pig-footed bandicoot, Chaeropus ecaudatus, is one of the most enigmatic Australian marsupials, which went extinct in the late 1950s probably as a result of European colonization. It is unusual in being the only marsupial to have evolved reduction of digits on both fore and hind feet, with the fo...
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The Royal Society
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5108938/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27853588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160089 |