Tag: gorgonopsid
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Fossil of sabre-toothed mammal ancestor discovered
Nature has a story about a sabre-toothed mammal. Fossils of a new large protomammal have been discovered in South Africa. Inostrancevia africana lived about 251.9 million years ago in what is now the Karoo Basin. This gorgonopsid was described in a paper recently published in the journal Current Biology. Jennifer Botha, professor at the Evolutionary Studies…
