New Mammal Fossils Show Off Early Diversity (8 of 9) (VIDEO)

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Image reconstruction from CT scanning of the jaws of Agilodocodon. This material relates to papers that appeared in the Feb. 13, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, Z.-X. Luo at the University of Chicago in Chicago, IL, and colleagues was titled, 'Evolutionary development in basal mammaliaforms as revealed by a docodontan.' The paper, Q.-J. Meng at the Beijing Museum of Natural History in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, 'An arboreal docodont from the Jurassic and mammaliaform ecological diversification.'

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[Credit: April I. Neander, the University of Chicago]

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