Jurassic Gliding Mammal Relative Sheds New Light on Evolution of Mammalian Middle Ear


Paleontologists from the United States and China have examined the middle ear bones (ossicles) of Vilevolodon diplomylos, a gliding haramiyidan that lived during the Middle Jurassic epoch, some 160 million years ago, and found them remarkably similar to those of modern monotremes (egg-laying mammals).

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