A Dinasour Era Mammal, the Jurassic Mother of us All?
26.8.2011 | 11:11
A tiny, shrew-like creature of the dinosaur era might have been, in a sense, the mother of us all.
Named the "Jurassic mother from China" (Juramaia sinensis), the newfound fossil species is the earliest known ancestor of placental mammalsanimals, such as humans, that give birth to relatively mature, live youngaccording to a new study.
The 160-million-year-old specimen pushes back fossil evidence for the evolutionary split between the placental and marsupial lineages by 35 million years. Although it's unclear if the creature is a direct ancestor of modern placentals, it's "either a great grand-aunt or a great grandmother," the study authors say.
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