Fossils show mammals lived with dinosaurs

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 17:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The dinosaurs needed to go extinct for the mammals, and humans, to arise. At least that's what researchers have been thinking for decades. But, a new study indicates that at least one group of ancient mammals was already expanding 20 million years before the dinosaurs were wiped from the Earth.

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