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Dog-Like Predator's Bones Belong to Oldest Known Mammal Relative


Before the time of the dinosaurs, a naked, warm-blooded egg-layer known as a gorgonopsian sipped water from Pangea's tropical floodplains amid herb-grazing reptiles off what's now Mallorca in the Mediterranean.

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