The 66-million-year-old fossil represents a new species that sheds light on evolution.
“We suspect some of this bizarreness might be due to evolution in isolation on an island."The first near-complete skeleton of a bizarre mammal that lived on the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana has been discovered in Madagascar, scientists announced in aThe 66-million-year-old, opossum-size fossil represents a new species, which the study authors have named"Adalatherium hui," from a Malagasy word meaning “crazy” and the Greek word for “beast”.
The skeleton is the most complete for any Mesozoic mammal yet discovered in the Southern Hemisphere. The mammal's relatively large size is an oddball for its era, scientists say, since most at that time were about the size of a mouse. "Knowing what we know about the skeletal anatomy of all living and extinct mammals, it is difficult to imagine that a mammal like Adalatherium could have evolved; it bends and even breaks a lot of rules," said study lead author David Krause, a curator at the
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