Scientists find the 74 million years of mammals in Chile

Scientists have discovered the drilling of small mammals that lived in the time of dinosaurs in Chilean Patagonia.

“Yeutherium Pressor” weighs between 30 and 40 grams (about one ounce) and lived in the Alawite Cretaceous era, about 74 million years ago.

They are the youngest mammals ever in this region of South America, which dates back to the era when it was part of a continental mass known as Gondwana.

Hans Bochill, who led a team of scientists from Chile University and Chile Millennium Millennium at the center early for early mammals, said the fossil consists of “a small piece of jaw with Molly, roots and roots of two other molars.”

It was the discovery Published This month in the British scientific journal The facts of the Royal Society B.

The researchers found Al -Ahfouri in the Chinese Rio de Las Valley in the Magalnis area of Chile, about 3000 km (1864 miles) south of Santiago.

Despite its similarity to the small rodents, “Yeutherium Pressor” was mammals that should have been laying eggs, such as the fate cells, or carrying their young in a bag like kangaroo or opossums.

The shape of its teeth indicates that it may have a relatively diet of solid vegetables.

Just like the dinosaurs with which you lived, the small mammals suddenly became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago.

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