Mammals "Rafted" to Madagascar, Climate Model Suggests

Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 08:49 in Biology & Nature

The ancestors of lemurs, fossa, and other Madagascar mammals got to the island aboard natural rafts, according to a new model of the ocean currents and prevailing winds that existed 50 million years ago.

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