Nouvelle fiche : un #animal un peu emblématique du "grand sud", loin de l'univers du plongeur lamba et tellement choupinou 💙 : l'otarie de #Kerguelen.

FEY Laurent, FONTAINE Pierre-Henry in : #DORIS, 09/04/2025 :
Arctocephalus gazella (Peters, 1875), https://doris.ffessm.fr/ref/specie/6027

#biodiversite #Australes #Vertébrés #mammifere #ffessm #biodiversity #Theria #Antartique #TAAF

Word Search Puzzle 58

Word List : #guesser #houghton #tizwin #fiercer #wahabit #girnal #evected #madia #berskin #prayable #scripee #theria #splints #scliff #melanin #benamed #mickler #arsenals

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Marsupial and Placental #Mammals Evolved in #Gondwana, Paleontologists Say https://www.sci.news/paleontology/gondwanan-origin-marsupial-placental-mammals-11490.html

The Gondwanan Origin of #Tribosphenida (#Mammalia) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2022.2132288

The research indicates that #Theria evolved in Gondwana, thriving and diversifying there for 50 million years before migrating to #Asia during the Early #Cretaceous epoch. Once they arrived in Asia they diversified rapidly, filling many ecological niches.