[Rockhounds] Mammal Marooned on Mesozoic Madagascar

[Tim Fisher]

Floating to Madagascar from Africa on a raft of vegetation (IMO a cop-out
theory except in exceedingly rare cases) sounds so much more mundane than
being carried over in the teeth of a giant Pterosaur that was hunting on the
continent to feed its ravenous offspring :D

Tim Fisher
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'Crazy Beast' Fossil Discovered in Madagascar Reveals Bizarre Mammal From
the Cretaceous Ryan F. Mandelbaum, Gizmodo, April 29, 2020
https://gizmodo.com/crazy-beast-fossil-discovered-in-madagascar-reveals-biz-
1843143385

My, what big teeth and strange bones you have.
Scientists discover a creature that roamed south of the equator 66 million
years ago.
By Ben Guarno, Washington Post, April 29, 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/04/29/mammal-skeleton-adalatheri
um-hui/

Marooned on Mesozoic Madagascar: Researchers discover 66-million-year-old
'crazy beast'
by Stony Brook University, April 29, 2020
https://phys.org/news/2020-04-marooned-mesozoic-madagascar-million-year-old-
crazy.html
https://www.livescience.com/ancient-bizarre-mammal-madagascar.html

Krause, D.W., Hoffmann, S., Hu, Y. et al. Skeleton of a Cretaceous mammal
from Madagascar reflects long-term insularity. Nature (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2234-8

Yorus,

Paul H.


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