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Scientists were wrong about this strange mammal for nearly 40 years
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A beautifully preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert has solved a mystery that puzzled paleontologists for nearly 40 years. Tamirkhan balcarceli shows that zhelestids were not early relatives of modern placental mammals, despite having teeth that seemed to suggest they were.
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Scientists were wrong about this strange mammal for nearly 40 years
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