Louise Stacey
An ancient, cat-sized mammal was found in Madagascar. Scientists have revealed that this mammal would have walked among the last of the dinosaurs.
This cat-sized mammal is thought to have lived alongside the last of the dinosaurs roughly 66 million years ago. Until now, it was thought that all mammals from this era were small rodent-sized animals. But living on Madagascar, which by this point had broken of from the rest of Gondwana, the creature was able to grow larger than most other mammals of its time.
Scientists appropriately named this creature Adalatherium Hui which means ‘crazy beast’. Scientist believe that Adalatherium would have burrowed in order to hide from predators.
According to David Krause, a vertebrate paleontologist, the discovery “bends and even breaks lots of rules.”
