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Mammalian evolution

A beast of the southern wild

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A newly discovered skull from the Cretaceous period belongs to a mammal that was big, strange and fast-moving. The fossil solves a long-standing mystery, and helps to resolve a controversy about mammalian evolution. See Article p.512

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Figure 1: A gondwanathere skull.

a, Joseph Groenke; b, Gary Staab

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  1. Anne Weil is in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74107, USA.,

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