Date: 1/05/2020 01:43:40
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1548979
Subject: 'Teeth from outer space': The prehistoric mammal baffling scientists

’Teeth from outer space’: The prehistoric mammal baffling scientists

Researchers have uncovered the fossil of an early mammal named the “crazy beast” that lived 66 million years ago on Madagascar, and it’s unlike any mammal ever known, living or extinct.

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Date: 1/05/2020 01:56:03
From: Bubblecar
ID: 1548985
Subject: re: 'Teeth from outer space': The prehistoric mammal baffling scientists

>‘Teeth from outer space’

So they say, but then we don’t get an actual description of the teeth.

Seems like a highly specialised mammal of its day. There are plenty of animals alive today that would pose a puzzle for palaeontologists of the future.

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Date: 1/05/2020 03:29:37
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1548998
Subject: re: 'Teeth from outer space': The prehistoric mammal baffling scientists

Bubblecar said:


>‘Teeth from outer space’

So they say, but then we don’t get an actual description of the teeth.

Seems like a highly specialised mammal of its day. There are plenty of animals alive today that would pose a puzzle for palaeontologists of the future.

I’ve been wondering about that. What mammals alive today have teeth that would pose a puzzle for palaeontologists of the future? Elephant, wild boar, other?

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