Denver Museum of Nature & Science: Colorado Discovery - Museum Scientists Identify New Species of Mammal From Just After the Extinction of the Dinosaurs
May 04, 2024
May 04, 2024
DENVER, Colorado, May 4 (TNSres) -- The Denver Museum of Nature and Science issued the following news release:
Denver Museum of Nature & Science researchers are excited to announce the fossil discovery of a species of a 65-million-year-old mammal that was collected in the Corral Bluffs area on the edge of Colorado Springs. The newly discovered species, named Militocodon lydae, is part of a group of animals that gave rise to all modern hoofed mammals, including deer, cows and pig . . .
Denver Museum of Nature & Science researchers are excited to announce the fossil discovery of a species of a 65-million-year-old mammal that was collected in the Corral Bluffs area on the edge of Colorado Springs. The newly discovered species, named Militocodon lydae, is part of a group of animals that gave rise to all modern hoofed mammals, including deer, cows and pig . . .