Giant mouse relative dubbed 'crazy beast' shared Gondwana with dinosaurs
Giant mouse relative dubbed 'crazy beast' shared Gondwana with dinosaurs By The 66-million-year-old mammal species Adalatherium featured a strange combination of anatomical features. Illustration courtesy of Andrey Atuchin Dec. 18 (UPI) -- The newly published discovery of a "giant" mouse relative that lived alongside the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago suggests that many of Earth's earliest mammals were strange creatures. The origins of storied animal lineages sometimes are described as evolutionary experiments. These primitive species often feature odd combinations of attributes not see...
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