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Scientists Uncover a 74-Million-Year-Old Egg-Laying Mammal That Stalked Dinosaurs in the Final Days of the Cretaceous

Scientists Uncover a 74-Million-Year-Old Egg-Laying Mammal That Stalked Dinosaurs in the Final Days of the Cretaceous

Published last week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of Chilean scientists announced the discovery of Yeutherium pressor, a mouse-sized mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs roughly 74 million years ago. Found in the remote Rio de las Chinas Valley in the Magallanes region of southern Chile, the fossil offers an unusually complete glimpse into the diversity …

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