deer, and hippos. But paleontologists, who piece together evolutionary stories from fossils, found the artiodactyl explanation hard to accept. Based on similarities in teeth, they maintained that ...

Like the supposed hooves, today we know that these are the shells of the bivalve Daonella, which are very common in some rocks of the Dolomites. The first scientific mention of fossils from the ...

This suggests that whales evolved from the ancestors of sheep, deer and hippopotami ... on the basis of the new fossils from Pakistan. Forefeet retain hooves on the central digits, but hind ...

Some consider the chevrotain a living fossil. Josh More ... they have even-toed hooves and a multi-chambered stomach. But unlike deer, chevrotains have a three-chambered stomach instead of ...

Even though Indohyus had the elegant legs of a small deer and walked around on hooves, it also had features found only in modern and fossil whales. Its jaws and teeth were similar to those of ...

Researchers studying 48-million-year-old fossils of Indohyus – an extinct animal which may have looked like a small deer – from ancient riverbeds in Kashmir suggest that the fossils represent ...

The silver-backed chevrotain — a mysterious animal that's the size of a rabbit but looks like a silver-splashed deer — has been ... walk on the tips of their hooves and have two tiny fangs ...