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Trixie: of course.
Pelito: rrrnnn…?
Ancestor is what I meant by early horses.
Hyracotherium was not actually a horse, it was just a relative.
Technically, it’s a palaeothere, but it’s ancestral to two groups – equus and brontotheres. There are no more brontotheres.
The “unicorns” use theirs as tools and weapons, the “pegasi” use theirs to cool down. More advanced uses came a few mutations later.
Also, while I like the precursor horns and wings (not sure if “vestigial” is the right word here…) I have to wonder, why are they developing those in the first place? Especially the wings. That’s a whole third limb girdle right there.
one hour later
great great great grandmothers.
“Nah. It’ll be fine.”
(translated from freakish pre-language squeals and whistles)
@Randomosaur
Cassowaries are herbivorous birds. They still kill people.
http://www.examiner.com/article/new-isotope-analysis-declares-gastornis-a-herbivore
That seems a bit odd considering its beak shape. It’s more like the hatchet beaks of raptors than an herbivorous bird’s beak. Rather curious.
No, they’re more related to brontotheres.
@Gundlach
Tough luck, Gastornis may have been a herbivore.
Despite the initial success of the My Little Hyracotherium species, its evolution would ultimately be cut short (usually by the razor sharp beaks of terror birds) due to unsuccessful attempts to make friends with the alpha predators of the Eocene period.
It’s a horse like Australopithecus’ are humans.
I still want one.