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Illustration of a warm-blooded ancestor of mammals

Ear anatomy shows warm-blooded animals evolved 233 million years ago

20 July 2022

Analysis of inner ear canals from hundreds of modern and fossil animals shows that warm-bloodedness appeared abruptly in the late Triassic

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