(PhysOrg.com) -- 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.
i wonder if they somehow triggered a state of aestivation and adapted to it… Aestivation is a kind of light hibernation that animals like crocodiles enter when it gets hot and dry for long periods… i was thinking their “cold-bloodedness” sounded like hibernation maybe…
i wonder if they somehow triggered a state of aestivation and adapted to it… Aestivation is a kind of light hibernation that animals like crocodiles enter when it gets hot and dry for long periods… i was thinking their “cold-bloodedness” sounded like hibernation maybe…