The Only Known Cold-Blooded Mammal Looked Like a Goat But …
Hidden in island caves for millions of years lived the Myotragus balearicus, a bizarre goat-like creature with a unique characteristic: a cold-blooded metabolism.
Myotragus Balearicus: Extinction of Mouse-Goats
2007年1月7日 · The cave of Muleta (Cova de Son Muleta), halfway between Deià and Sóller has been particularly fruitful to the study of the mousegoat since it has yielded the remains of some 3500 mouse-goat specimens. The cave, discovered by William Waldren and colleagues, had acted as a natural trap: the animals would enter, fall down a vertical shaft to ...
Extinct goat was “similar to crocodiles” - Conservation news
2009年11月16日 · But researchers have discovered that an extinct species of goat, the Balearic Island cave goat or Myotragus balearicus, survived in nutrient-poor Mediterranean islands by evolving reptilian-specific characteristics. The goat, much like crocodiles, was able to grow at flexible rates, stopping growth entirely when food was scant.
Myotragus balearicus – an extinct goat with anthropomorphic face …
Long before the first primitive domestic goats were brought to the Balearic archipelago by early human settlers, another caprid already populated the islands of Majorca and Minorca. This remarkable ungulate, Myotragus balearicus, was about the size of a small domestic goat.
The survival of Myotragus balearicus bate, 1909, into the neolithic …
1980年12月1日 · This strange animal has no common name; it is called the "cave goat" by Kurtrn (1968) but it is unlikely that it spent very much of its waking life in caves where most of the bones must have accumulated from animals that fell into natural traps.
Genus Myotragus - iNaturalist
Myotragus balearicus (Greek-derived Neo-Latin: μῦς and τράγος and Βαλεαρίδες "Balearian mouse-goat"), also known as the Balearic Islands cave goat, a species of the subfamily Caprinae which lived on the islands of Majorca and Menorca until its extinction around 5,000 years ago.
Myotragus balearicus (Balearic Islands cave goat) - The Recently ...
Tracks and trackways of Myotragus balearicus Bate (Artiodactyla, Caprinae) in Pleistocene aeolianites from Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 180(4): 277-313.
Balearic Cave Goat (Myotragus balearicus) - Know Your Mammals
The Balearic Cave Goat, or Myotragus balearicus, is a fascinating creature that once roamed the beautiful Balearic Islands in Spain. This unique animal,
Journal of Biogeography - Wiley Online Library
2003年5月9日 · Aim In this study we present a new view on the extinction of Myotragus balearicus, an extinct highly modified dwarf caprine from the Gymnesic Islands (or eastern Balearic Islands), as a methodological case study for …
The Myotragus Balearicus – The Mallorca Photo Blog
2009年8月3日 · The Myotragus balearicus is a small sized wild goat that is as extinct and dead as a dodo. The only chance to see one is in its skeletonised form and shape in a museum, and there are not many museums in the world that can claim that they have got one.
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