We Chinese have long known that turtles are long-lived animals, so there has been a proverb from ancient times: "A thousand-year-old king, an eighty-thousand-year-old turtle". But do you know? In the evolution of vertebrates, turtles and turtles also have a long history....
We already know that based on the development of the temporal part of the skull, that is, the relationship between the development and changes of the temporal foramen, scientists divide reptiles (classes) into four subclasses, namely Anosus, Monossus, and Platysus. and Dicypodia. On this basi...
Turtles are familiar animals, but their evolutionary history is one of the biggest mysteries in paleontology: whether they originated independently from anapora (no other openings in the skull behind the eye holes), or whether they were related to lizards and crocodiles. Along with dinosaurs...