A large group of mammals that includes rodents and rabbits, characterized by their continuously growing front teeth used for gnawing.
From Latin 'glirēs' (dormice). Biologists revived this classical term in modern taxonomy to describe the clade containing rodents and lagomorphs, a grouping now established through genetic analysis.
Scientists discovered that mice and rabbits are more closely related to each other than either is to primates—so they created this super-family called Glires, bringing back a 2,000-year-old Latin word to name a 21st-century genetic discovery!
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