Topic: SCIENCE - on December 11, 2003 at 11:40:18 PM CET
Earliest known marsupial unearthed in China
The oldest known fossil skeleton of an ancestor of modern marsupials has been unearthed in north-eastern China. The spectacular find is 50 million years older than the previous record holder, and helps to fill a key gap in the understanding of early mammal evolution.
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