A
molelike mammal nicknamed the "grave robber" survived the event that
killed the dinosaurs, new research finds.
Necrolestes
patagonensis, whose name translates in part to "grave robber," was
among the mammals that lived through the dinosaur
mass extinction. The new study finds that the creature lived 45 million
years longer than paleontologists realized.
Necrolestes was
first discovered in fossil form in the Patagonia region of South America in
1891, but little was known about the animal, study researcher John Wible, a
mammalogist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, said in a statement.
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