A tiny fossil skull found within 195-million-year-old Chinese sediments provides evidence that crucial features of mammal anatomy evolved more than 45 million years earlier than previously recognized.
An artist’s conception of Hadrocodium Wui and its skull, with a paperclip to provide a sense of scale for the 2-gram insectivore.
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