Thanks for visiting! A few years back, I briefly covered a throwaway Yahoo! article about how âcarbs will make you lose weightâ because so many readers had emailed about it. It turned out that the âcarbsâ in the article were resistant starch, a type of carbohydrate that our digestive enzymes cannot break down. Iâll admit now, with regret, that I didnât look as deeply into the matter as I might have.
Prehensile tails acts like a fifth limb. Monkeys are the most famous creatures with prehensile tails and many tourists on safari have realized this a few moments too late after things vanished before their eyes. Most other animals have non-prehensile tails. source: Kirill Kurashov/shutterstock.com.
Horse like animals continued to develop, and Merychippuss (ruminants or cud chewing horse) appeared about 26 million years ago. It grew about 100 cms high. Like Mesohippus, it had three toes on each foot. The side toes were almost useless, but the centre toe grew long and strong. It ended in a large, curved hoof and bore all the animal's weight.