PBS Eons: Is This the Oldest Dad in the Fossil Record?

PBS Eons has a new episode.  This one is about fossil evidence of early mammals and how they raised their young,

Fossil evidence suggests Diictodon used burrows to breed, and that a parent stayed behind to feed and protect their young. And the parent that stayed behind? It might’ve been the male.

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