Long before dinosaurs died out, a beaver-tailed animal in China was already swallowing like a mammal
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“A 165-million-year-old fossil discovered in China reveals that an early mammal relative possessed the specialized throat structures required for modern mammalian swallowing long before dinosaurs went extinct.”
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The natural world continues to prove that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. The moderate weirdness score suggests this is unusual but not completely unprecedented.
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