(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.
  • @[email protected]English
    52•8 months ago

    Became the only known cold blooded mammal and survived on a dank little island for five million years until humans showed up three thousand years ago and ate them to extinction.

    Damn.

    • theodewere
      17•8 months ago

      they basically could only survive inside that closet of an ecosystem… anywhere outside and they were easy meat for any medium sized predator… apparently they were exceptionally slow, weak and stupid as a result of the adaptation…

  • theodewere
    3•8 months ago

    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…