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Meet Three Cat-Sized Mammals That Survived After Dinosaurs Died

Meet Three Cat-Sized Mammals That Survived After Dinosaurs Died

Palaeontologists have found fossilised teeth and jaws of three hitherto unrecognised mammals — Conacodon hettingeri, Miniconus jeanninae, Beornus honeyi — in the Great Divide Basin of Wyoming. The fossils suggest that these mammals were not bigger than a giant rodent or a small-sized cat and thrived during the early Puercan age, within almost 328,000 years after the dinosaurs disappeared. They…