Ancient elephant-sized mammal ancestor gave dinosaurs a run for their money

While mammals dominate the planet nowadays, for millions of years we played second fiddle to reptiles – most notably the dinosaurs. While reptiles became the biggest land animals to ever walk the Earth, mammals were mostly rat-sized critters running around underfoot. But now palaeontologists have described a mammal ancestor from the Triassic Period that bucked the trend and grew to the size of an elephant, giving those early dinosaurs a run for their money.

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Category: Science

Tags:

• Animals
• Bones
• Dinosaurs
• Evolution
• Fossils
• Paleontology
• Uppsala University

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