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Vertebrate Evolution: Eye Sockets Near the Snout Eye Sockets Near the Snout

The eye sockets moved forward on the skull to a position near the snout in the common ancestor of the mammal groups on the orange branches. The significance of this evolutionary change is not well understood.

Mammuthus

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