What they do know is thanks to a newly-discovered fossil in Madagascar and work from an international team of researchers that included John Wible, curator of mammals at Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Date: Apr 29, 2020
Category: Science
Source: Google
Furry Insect-Eater Was Earliest Human (and Most Mammal) Ancestor
The newly constructed mammal family tree indicates that the fragmentation of Gondwana- one of two supercontinents formerly part of Pangaea- came well before the origin of placental mammals, co-author John Wible of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History shared.
"The new dryolestoid, Cronopio, is without a doubt one of the most unusual mammals that I have seen, extinct or living," said John Wible, curator of mammals at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.