Fossil redefines mammal history

[xchrom]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14651218


A small, 160-million-year-old Chinese fossil has something big to say about the emergence of mammals on Earth.

The shrew-like creature is the earliest known example of an animal that used a placenta to provide nourishment to their unborn young.

Its features clearly set it apart from marsupial mammals, which adopt a very different reproductive strategy.

The discovery pushes back the date the two groups took up their separate lines, according to Nature magazine.

[gordianot]

1. Grandpa?

[sellitman]

2. That's Rick Santorums great,great grandfather I suspect.

The Apple didnt fall far from the tree.

[jimlup]

4. No he's on a different branch of the tree...

He's from the Reptilian side of things not the mammalian branch.

[ehrnst]

3. Why does the Nature Magazine hate Jesus so much?

And their global warming articles show that they clearly hate capitalism.

When Governor Goodhair becomes president, these sorts of heretical studies will be defunded immediately.