Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Extinct goat was cold-blooded

Extinct goat Myotragus balearicus. Image: Xavier Vázquez, via Wikipedia
An extinct goat that lived on a barren Mediterranean island survived for millions of years by reducing in size and by becoming cold-blooded, which has never before been discovered in mammals.

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