90-Million-Year-Old Mammal Fossil Found in Gobi Desert

In the arid immensity of the Gobi desert, a jaw fragment of the size of a nail has just delivered a secret of nearly 70 million years old. A team of Japanese and Mongolian researchers has in fact discovered a fossil belonging to a species of mammal totally unknown until then, dated from the Cretaceous [...]

90-Million-Year-Old Mammal Fossils Discovered in the Gobi Desert

Scientists have discovered a new genus and species of ZheLestid mammals from fossil sites in the Bien Series Formation located in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia. Reconstruction of ravjaa ishiii (foreground) depicted near a hadrosaurus dinosaur Gobihadro. Image credit: kohei futaka. This new species, named ravjaa ishiii, existed during the Cretaceous period approximately 90 million years [...] Source The post 90-Million-Year-Old Mammal Fossils Discove…

90-Million-Year-Old Mammal Fossil Found in Gobi Desert

A new genus and species of zhelestid mammal has been identified from the fossilized remains found in the Bayanshiree Formation in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. The post 90-Million-Year-Old Mammal Fossil Found in Gobi Desert appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

Scientists have discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in rock layers from the late Cretaceous (100-66 million years ago) in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. The article Paleontologists discover fossil of a new species of mammal from the age of dinosaurs in the Gobi Desert comes from the website Wszystko co końca.