Jurassic Mammal Got His Feet Wet

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WASHINGTON - The discovery of a furry, beaver-like animal that lived during the time of dinosaurs has overturned more than a century of scientific thinking about Jurassic mammals.

The find shows that the ecological role of mammals in the time of dinosaurs was far greater than previously thought, said Zhe-Xi Luo, the curator of vertebrate paleontology at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.

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Jurassic Mammal Got His Feet Wet

The animal is the earliest swimming mammal to have been found and was...

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