University of Colorado: Tiny 'Ice Mouse' Survived Arctic Cold in the Age of Dinosaurs
August 11, 2023
August 11, 2023
BOULDER, Colorado, Aug. 11 (TNSres) -- The University of Colorado Boulder campus issued the following news on Aug. 10, 2023:
Paleontologists working in northern Alaska have discovered a tiny fossil mammal that thrived in what may have been among the coldest conditions on Earth about 73 million years ago.
The researchers, led by Jaelyn Eberle of CU Boulder, described the Late Cretaceous animal in a study published this month in the "Journal of Systematic Palaeontolo . . .
Paleontologists working in northern Alaska have discovered a tiny fossil mammal that thrived in what may have been among the coldest conditions on Earth about 73 million years ago.
The researchers, led by Jaelyn Eberle of CU Boulder, described the Late Cretaceous animal in a study published this month in the "Journal of Systematic Palaeontolo . . .