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Mallorca: Traces of the Oldest Mammalian Ancestors Discovered

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Only the bones, now the footprints: in 2024 paleontologists in Mallorca discovered the fossil of the oldest mammalian ancestors. Now they have also found the footprints of this Gorgonopsier. The 270 million-year-old prints reveal that the passage and posture of this prehistoric four-legged animal were already astonishingly modern and mammals-like. The dog-like animal already ran with legs perpendicular to the body and had larger feet than hands.…
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Only the bones, now the footprints: in 2024 paleontologists in Mallorca discovered the fossil of the oldest mammalian ancestors. Now they have also found the footprints of this Gorgonopsier. The 270 million-year-old prints reveal that the passage and posture of this prehistoric four-legged animal were already astonishingly modern and mammals-like. The dog-like animal already ran with legs perpendicular to the body and had larger feet than hands.…

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scinexx.de broke the news in on Tuesday, October 21, 2025.
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