{"id":3471,"date":"2009-10-20T19:20:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-02-18T11:33:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T10:33:48","slug":"the-myotragus-balearicus-in-mallorca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/en\/culture\/the-myotragus-balearicus-in-mallorca.html","title":{"rendered":"The Myotragus Balearicus in Mallorca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3445 size-full\" style=\"float: right; border: 0; margin: 0px 20px 0px 20px;\" title=\"Myotragus Balearicus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Myotragus-Balearicus_1.jpg\" alt=\"Myotragus Balearicus\" width=\"150\" height=\"89\" \/>The Myotragus Balearicus was a mammal, <strong>endemic to Mallorca<\/strong>. Was discovered in 1909 by the palaeontologist <strong>Dorothea Bate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3450 size-full\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 10px 20px 10px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Myotragus Balearicus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Myotragus-Balearicus_2.jpg\" alt=\"Myotragus Balearicus\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a largest mammal of the islands and belongs to the antelope family. Its remains have been found next to human objects and bones, proving that man coexisted with this animal and tamed it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The name of Myotragus comes from the Greek and means &#8220;goat-rat&#8221;. It is believed that this mammal arrived in Mallorca when the islands were still attached to the continental shelf, more than <strong>five million years ago<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once our islands were separated from the continent, their ancestors were isolated, they found themselves without major predators that threatened them and evolved differently from those outside the islands, adapting perfectly to the insular habitat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3466 size-full\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 8px 0px 8px 20px; float: right;\" title=\"Myotragus Balearicus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Myotragus-Balearicus_3.jpg\" alt=\"Myotragus Balearicus\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Myotragus-Balearicus_3.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Myotragus-Balearicus_3-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Both males and females had two small horns, fine and sharp, which, starting from the forehead, extended towards the back. The Myotragus Balearicus was rather small in size, about 50 centimeters tall and about 10-12 kilos in weight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Myotragus Balearicus <strong>is the only domestic, extinctspecies known in the world<\/strong>. The latest evidence of its presence in Mallorca dating from 2030-170 BC.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In May 2010 a group of paleontologists made a new and fruitful expedition in the <a title=\"Cova des Pas de Vallgornera\" href=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/ca\/excursions\/cova-des-pas-de-vallgornera-mallorca-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cova des Pas de Vallgornera<\/a> (Llucmajor), which have already reached 65 km topography, discovered in an isolated gallery known as &#8220;Tragus&#8221; <strong>the complete skeleton of Myotragus oldest surviving<\/strong>, about two million years, belonging to a missing link in the evolutionary chain of &#8220;goat-rat&#8221; between the <em>Myotragus antiquus<\/em> and <em>Myotragus kopperi<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Myotragus Balearicus was a mammal, endemic to Mallorca. 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