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Surprise! This Tiny Animal May Be The Long-Lost Ancestor of Cows, Pigs, And Deer

Meet the newly discovered species Militocodon lydae: Thought to be about the size of a rat and weighing up to 455 grams or 16 ounces, this small mammal is the likely ancestor of all modern hoofed animals, called ungulates.

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