Capitolo 91
struggle for the life was more and more arduous. From now, while the
the old style marsupial they kept on surviving and to slowly evolve long
them own lines in their his/her own limited southern world, them
descending collateral in Europe and Asia and America or elsewhere it went
on to advance in forms adapted far taller, stronger, and best--the
great central mammalian fauna. In place of the small phalangers and
ant-eaters put in a purse of the period of oolitic, our tertiary strata in the
the greatest continents show us a rapid and extraordinary development of the
mammalian run in monstrous creatures, some of their now rather extinct,
and some that still hold them really unperturbed in India, Africa and the
American grasslands. The palaeotherium and the deinoceras, the mastodon and
the mammoth, the enormous giraffes and antelopes of times more exposed to the sun, succeed
to the ancestral kangaroos and wombats of the secondary strata. Slowly
the horses grow more foals, the shady camel starts to camelise
him, the buffaloeses acquire the rudiments of horns the branch of the buck,
out of provisional footsteps in even more complicated and more complicated
ramifications. You side from side with this marvelous bulge of the mammal
typists, in the first plasticity of his/her vigorous youth, the more old man
marsupials die away one to the time in the geologic record in front of the faces
of their competitors more succeeded; the new carnivores devour them
sells to the wholesale one, the new ruminants eat on their pastures the new rodents,
overcome them in astuteness in the modernized forests. Finally the creatures put in a purse everybody
suddenly disappears from the whole world, safe only Australia, with the
solitary exception of an advanced alone family of marsupial, the family one
opossum of melodies of plantation. And the history of the opossum him
it is so very unusual that it almost deserves to receive the kind one
attention of a separate paragraph for his/her his/her own corrected elucidation.
For the opossums the only members of the marsupial class what time alive they form