Tipsy Taxonomy (2024)

01/01/2022

Happy “GNU” Year from all of us! This also happens to be our ungulate next week! Stay tuned for more soon!
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06/03/2021

One of Zoë’s favorites!!

Unexpected Family Tree
The Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) is unique among living mammals - it is the only member of the order Tubulidentata. Modern aardvarks have changed very little over the past 36 million years, and you have to go back 50 million years to find a common ancestor with other mammals! The aardvark's closest (but still distant) living relatives are other members of the "Afrotheria" clade of mammals.

Afrotheria Clade
This clade includes the orders: Tubulidentata, Afrosoricida, Sirenia, Macroscelidea, Hyracoidea and Proboscidea

Tubulidentata - This order includes only the aardvark
Afrosoricida - This order includes golden moles and tenrecs
Sirenia - This order includes manatees and dugongs
Macroscelidea - This order includes elephant shrews
Hyracoidea - This order includes hyraxes
Proboscidea - This order includes elephants

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