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Before Dinosaur Extinction, Rodent-Like Mammals were Already Flourishing in Ancient Arctic


Paleontologists have described three previously unknown species of multituberculate mammals -- named Camurodon borealis, Qayaqgruk peregrinus, and Kaniqsiqcosmodon polaris -- that lived in polar forests about 73 million years ago.

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