Sentence examples for extinct ruminants from inspiring English sources
Chip-based SNP analyses have been used to resolve evolutionary relationships in extinct ruminants [ 8], and to understand global patterns of population structure in cattle and dogs [ 9- 11].
The evolutionary strategies and feeding preferences in extinct ruminants have figured importantly in evolutionary ecology [ 1- 9], and although a more complex view of the dietary adaptations and the evolutionary transitions of the feeding styles have recently begun to emerge [ 4, 5], little reliable dietary information exists for the taxa involved in the Early Miocene ruminant radiation [ 10- 14].
Fig. 10 Extinct Pleistocene ruminants.
b Hindfeet of the extinct stem ruminant Hypertragulus calcaratus showing unguligrade foot posture, where the weight is borne on the last phalanx of the toes.
After the Ice Age ended some 10,000 years ago, many bovids and other ruminants became extinct in the Northern Hemisphere.
For instance, the proportion of browsing and grazing can be estimated from microwear pattern for ruminant species that became extinct millions of years ago [1], [5].
And while that picture has recently been eclipsed by nauseating images of modern meat production, the grass-fed ruminant and the vegetarian herbivore are not extinct yet.
The high abundance of D. elegans, an exclusive case in the Miocene ruminant fauna, would support a gregarious behaviour coherent with the fact of being the only extinct deer with antlered females [ 42], and only comparable with the extant Rangifer.
Similarly, Decker et al. [ 2] used a much expanded genomic data set to investigate phylogenetic relationships from the level of Ruminantia (ruminants, including cattle, antelope, deer, giraffe, and chevrotains) to that of domesticated cattle breeds, including DNA from the extinct Bison priscus.
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.
