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This ‘crazy beast’ that lived with the dinosaurs was unlike other creatures – CNET
The unusual 66-million-year-old mammal called Adalatherium “bends and even breaks a lot of rules,” researchers say.
Andrey Atuchin
Scientists say they’re baffled by the strange appearance of a 66-million-year-old opossum-sized mammal dubbed the Adalatherium — which translates as “crazy beast.”
“Knowing what we know about the skeletal anatomy of all living and extinct mammals, it is difficult to imagine that a mammal like Adalatherium could have evolved,” David Krause, of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, said in a release. “It bends and even breaks a lot of rules.”
On Friday, Krause, along with the…
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