A key gene helps explain how the ability to glide has emerged over-and-over during marsupial evolution
Published Date: 4/24/2024
Source: phys.org
People say "When pigs fly" to describe the impossible. But even if most mammals are landlubbers, the ability to glide or fly has evolved again and again during mammalian evolution, in species ranging from bats to flying squirrels. How did that come about?