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Australian scientists solve mystery of moment monotremes migrated

Australian scientists solve mystery of moment monotremes migrated


Australian scientists solve mystery of moment monotremes migrated
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Researchers have pinpointed exactly how and when echidnas likely arrived in Australia as part of a fossil analysis shedding new light on the origins of egg-laying mammals.

The researchers have also classified the earliest monotreme, a tiny insect-eating creature that lived an estimated 126m years ago, in its own mammalian family. The animal, Teinolophos trusleri, weighed an estimated 40g and lived at a time when southeastern Australia lay close to the south pole, as part of the supercontinent Gondwana.

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