Marsupial lived among Arctic dinosaurs
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 - 14:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A research team has discovered a previously unknown species of marsupial that lived in Alaska's Arctic during the era of dinosaurs, adding a vivid new detail to a complex ancient landscape. The thumb-sized animal, named Unnuakomys hutchisoni, lived in the Arctic about 69 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period.