Discovery of the oldest European marsupial
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 14:35
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Remains of one of the oldest known marsupials have been recovered in Charente-Maritime by a palaeontologist team from the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (CNRS, France) and the University of Rennes. This discovery raises a new hypothesis about the dispersal route of the earliest marsupial mammals. Results are published this week in the journal PNAS.