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//The **kumivak** is an instructive example of how much the evolution of sauropods on Nekenalos diverged from their ancestors of Earth. Despite being a member of the titanosaur clade, it bears little obvious resemblance to the colossal quadrupeds that are known by this name. Some thirty million years ago, a certain species of titanosaurs gave birth to calves that frequently rose on their hindlimbs to browse on shrubs and used their forelimbs to pull down fruit-bearing branches before moving into the open plain with the adults. Through neoteny, this species gave rise to a vast clade of small-bodied, | //The **kumivak** is an instructive example of how much the evolution of sauropods on Nekenalos diverged from their ancestors of Earth. Despite being a member of the titanosaur clade, it bears little obvious resemblance to the colossal quadrupeds that are known by this name. Some thirty million years ago, a certain species of titanosaurs gave birth to calves that frequently rose on their hindlimbs to browse on shrubs and used their forelimbs to pull down fruit-bearing branches before moving into the open plain with the adults. Through neoteny, this species gave rise to a vast clade of small-bodied, | ||
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