Hacker News with Generative AI: Mammals

Birds have developed complex brains independently from mammals (phys.org)
Two studies published in the latest issue of Science have revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed complex brain circuits independently, despite sharing a common ancestor.
Platybelodon (wikipedia.org)
Platybelodon ("flat-spear tusk") is an extinct genus of large herbivorous proboscidean mammals related to modern-day elephants, placed in the "shovel tusker" family Amebelodontidae.
Alternate RNA decoding results in stable and abundant proteins in mammals (biorxiv.org)
Fossil hints that Jurassic mammals lived slow and died old (nytimes.com)
Study confirms mammal-to-mammal avian flu spread (news.cornell.edu)