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tilthat:

TIL a cave goat that went extinct approx. 5,000 years ago is the first known mammal to have become cold-blooded. Their bone growth rate is unlike any other mammal, and more similar to crocodiles in showing slow and adaptive rates to environmental temperature.

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The goat’s binomial name is Myotragus balearicus. It was kind of an oddball in a lot of other ways, too, an example being that it had forward-facing eyes, giving it stereoscopic vision, which was pretty odd for an ungulate. 

Here’s what its skull looked like, btw.

(By Didier Descouens - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)

can’t believe we missed out on hte fucked up crocodile goat. :(

that was the devil

What the what

having a bad time picturing what a goat with forward facing eyes would look like

it went extinct because anything that saw it instinctively wanted to kill it