Mother Mirothere By Sheather888 Watch

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This is a species of mirothere - an unguligrade gondwanathere mammal which raises its young in a pouch in marsupial fashion until they can run, has three-toed front paws and one-toed hind paws - native to the semi-arid plains of Australia on an Earth where the K-pg extinction event never occured. Mammals still dominate Australia here as a result of a second but smaller impact that locally affected this continent in the miocene, killing off large reptiles and allowing once small mammals to thrive in a similar but more localized fashion to that which occurred all over the world in our universe. It is a grazer. Males have sharp spurs on their hind legs for combat with other males; females lack these entirely, as their pouches open backwards and kicking defensively this way would threaten their young. Social structures of these species are like wild horses, with males controlling harems of females.



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Published : Jul 10, 2018