Professor Zhe-Xi Luo examines the fossil evidence for heightened mammalian senses in Hadrocodium.
The mammals found a niche for themselves not so much in space as in time – at night, when the reptiles are not active.
Monotremes | Platypus and Echidna | Dr Henrik Kaessmann
The Platypus and Echidna are among the few mammals that lay eggs and this restricts the mother to remaining with her offspring.
The mammals began to favour milk over egg yolk as a way to nourish their young. And that is because milk has one key advantage. It’s on tap, and that means that none of it need go to waste.
Yunnan Province | Wang Tao | Hadrocodium | Dawn of the Mammals
Mammals evolved, nocturnally, from early reptiles. Wang Tao studies fossil evidence from the Yannan Province to seek evidence.
As such, Hadrocodium holds a key position in the evolutionary story of the backboned animals, the vertebrates.
