The funniest thing in this situation. Previous account pushing this edit was thiis guy, known on his Patreon as "Carlos Albuquerque". Which is also the name of the author on the book they're pushing.
Should the fact that some modern cladistic analysis point out that Creodonta is paraphiletic be mentioned?
It was just recently edited on wikipedia's Creodonta page after all.
Edited by Hunter1324Why is this list ending at Australopiths? Why not include the Homo genus? What are the supposed "ethical reasons" behind not including our genus?
A trve man never dies, even when he's killed! Hide / Show RepliesI suspect that simple omission is the reason - or that Homo being an extant genus doesn't count.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanBut extinct species of Panthera, Canis and Ursus are addressed. You can add a section on extinct species of Homo if you want.
Peace is the only battle worth waging.Thanks for your input. If you guys ask me, it seems more to avoid offending the ultra religious. But those kind of guys view sites like these as a taboo, so it doesn't really matter. If nobody minds, I will expand on the last folder to add our extinc ancestors and relatives from the Homo genus.
Edited by 190.233.133.156 A trve man never dies, even when he's killed!The part about Coryphodon seems dated. It's 2013; do people still support ungulate polyphyly?
Peace is the only battle worth waging.The word "life" in the title seems a tad superfluous to me. Aren't all mammals life-forms?
Hide / Show RepliesIt's part of a series on prehistoric life, as far as I can gather. Maybe we should punctuate it as Prehistoric Life — Mammals.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
It's worth noting that there is no conclusive evidence of volaticothere mammals being powered flyers.
We know that Volaticotherium itself was a glider, and its relative Ichthyoconodon had teeth preserved in marine strata. However, because of this, a user keeps going around on various sites claiming this is proof that volaticotheres developed powered flight, and treating this hypothesis as fact, even though if a group of flying mammals avoided competition with pterosaurs AND early birds, we would surely have more evidence of it.
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