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Ancient Aquatic Predator Reveals Key Evolutionary Leap in Mammalian History
In the shadowed, dinosaur-dominated landscape of the Jurassic Period, 165 million years ago, a small, fur-covered hunter was prowling the waterways of what is now Inner Mongolia. While its stature—roughly half a meter from nose to tail—might seem modest by modern standards, the discovery of this creature, Megacauda sungei, has provided paleontologists with a profound…
