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February 18, 2019
February 18, 2019
BOULDER, Colorado, Feb. 18 -- The University of Colorado Boulder campus issued the following news:
Paleontologists working on a steep river bank in Alaska have discovered fossil evidence of the northernmost marsupial known to science.
This tiny, opossum-like critter, which the team named Unnuakomys hutchisoni, roamed the Earth during the Late Cretaceous Period about 69 million years ago. It rubbed elbows with dinosaurs on a land mass that was, at the time, located far a . . .
Paleontologists working on a steep river bank in Alaska have discovered fossil evidence of the northernmost marsupial known to science.
This tiny, opossum-like critter, which the team named Unnuakomys hutchisoni, roamed the Earth during the Late Cretaceous Period about 69 million years ago. It rubbed elbows with dinosaurs on a land mass that was, at the time, located far a . . .