This is the fifth and installment of the Darwin Week Challenge! For guidelines and scoring system, please see Monday’s post – Challenge #1.
(Remember – only one guess per person)
Solve this!
Using TimeTree.Org, find a modern Australian marsupial that shared a common ancestor with a modern African ungulate between approximately 160 and 165 million years ago (mya).
An answer will be revealed later tonight! Bonus point for anyone who matches my exact answer.
According to TimeTree.Org, the zebra and the koala shared an ancestor 163.9 million years ago (http://goo.gl/ByF4X)
Nice! The animals I had come up with are kangaroo and camel. But I’m guessing that there are a lot of answers that fit this criteria.
I didn’t even try the kangaroo, assuming that was way too obvious to be the answer.