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A Beast Crazy Enough to Live with Dinosaurs At one time, Australia, South America, Antarctica, the Indian subcontinent, Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula were merged into a supercontinent now known as Gondwana. Scientists are still learning about how mammalian evolution progressed there. Reporting in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, researchers have now described a strange mammal that lived during the time of the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. The study is based on a nearly complete skeleton that has been preserved as well or better than any ever found in the southern hemisphere from before the dinosaurs went extinct. This animal is called Adalatherium, from the Malagasy and Greek languages for crazy beast, and it s a large relative of the typically mouse-sized mammals that lived in the Cretaceous period about 145 - 66 million years ago. Adalatherium was about the size of an opossum and was from what s now Madagascar. It s a gondwanatherian, a now-extinct group of

United statesKathrine panDavid krauseSimone hoffmannYork institute of technologyDenver museum of nature scienceTaylor francis groupSouth americaArabian peninsulaVertebrate paleontologyDenver museumNew york instituteFrancis groupஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில்கதிதிறினே பான்டேவிட் க்ராஸ்