microrobert
11-06-2014, 04:24 AM
Scientists in Madagascar discover a comparatively giant prehistoric mammal
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DURING the dinosaur age, most mammals were puny, generally weighing less than a few kilograms. Now a bizarre fossil skull from Madagascar has revealed a comparative giant, one that clocked in at maybe 9kg.
“It was a monster,” said David Krause of Stony Brook University in New York, who led the discovery team. “It looks like a big groundhog.”
It’s the second heaviest mammal known from the dinosaur era, which ran roughly from 250 million years ago to 65 million years ago, and the most massive of that time from Southern Hemisphere.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/scientists-in-madagascar-discover-a-comparatively-giant-prehistoric-mammal/story-fnjwl1aw-1227114684579
http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2014/11/06/1227114/681843-eb81d61e-655c-11e4-a310-49154a12f97b.jpg
DURING the dinosaur age, most mammals were puny, generally weighing less than a few kilograms. Now a bizarre fossil skull from Madagascar has revealed a comparative giant, one that clocked in at maybe 9kg.
“It was a monster,” said David Krause of Stony Brook University in New York, who led the discovery team. “It looks like a big groundhog.”
It’s the second heaviest mammal known from the dinosaur era, which ran roughly from 250 million years ago to 65 million years ago, and the most massive of that time from Southern Hemisphere.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/scientists-in-madagascar-discover-a-comparatively-giant-prehistoric-mammal/story-fnjwl1aw-1227114684579