The Anatomy of a Mammal Bone

When we look at anatomy of any particular species, it is typically mainly determined by the function of that feature and by ancestry. Mammal bones and bird bones are going to have particular bird and mammal ancestral features no matter how much they have functionally adapted to be similar to each other. Now, sometimes it's not as easy as just saying, well, yes, this animal has a crocodile like snout, but the rest of its body is a dinosaur yo. It's not a crocodile. And there are definitely times where we have come back and gone, actually, we thought these both looked this way because of ancestry, but we found their ancestor riht, and they it doesn

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