Nearly Complete Fossil Reveals Scientists Were Wrong About This Ancient Mammal
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Nearly Complete Fossil Reveals Scientists Were Wrong About This Ancient Mammal
An exceptionally preserved Cretaceous mammal challenges longstanding assumptions about early placental relatives. A nearly complete mammal skeleton recovered from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has overturned a classification built largely from isolated teeth. Described in Nature by researchers from the American Museum of Natural History, Stony Brook University, the University of Arizona, and Arcadia University, the fossil [...]
A nearly complete fossil of a Cretaceous mammal, found in the Gobi Desert, has altered our understanding of the classification of zhelestids, a group of mammals believed to be closely related to modern placental mammals. The research, published in the journal Nature, was conducted by a team of scientists from institutions such as the American Museum of Natural History and Stony Brook University. Discovered in the Gobi Desert, the fossil, identif…
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