Darwin’s ‘strangest animal ever’ finds a family

  DARWIN: Charles Darwin, Mr. Evolution himself, didn’t know what to make of the fossils he saw in Patagonia so he sent them to his friend, the renowned paleontologist Richard Owen. Owen was stumped too. Little wonder. “The bones looked different from anything he knew,” said Michael Hofreiter, senior author of a study published Tuesday in … Continue reading Darwin’s ‘strangest animal ever’ finds a family