Scientists Uncover A 75-Million-Year-Old Tiny Mammal that May Have Outsmarted The Dinosaur Extinction

A newly identified species of small mammal discovered in Baja California is reshaping how scientists understand survival at the end of the dinosaur era. Detailed in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the fossil of Cimolodon desosai suggests that the traits needed to outlast Earth’s most devastating extinction event were already evolving millions of years before the catastrophe struck.

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