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News Release 13-022
Placental Mammal Diversity Blossomed After Age of Dinosaurs
Scientists build new 'tree of life' for placentals, visualize common ancestor
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Artist's rendering of the hypothetical placental ancestor, a small insect-eating animal.
Credit: Carl Buell
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See a video about the new mammal 'tree of life' discovery.
Credit: AMNH
The new evolutionary tree for placental mammals, combining phenomic and genomic data.
Credit: Stony Brook University/Luci Betti Nash
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This shrew-sized Cretaceous-age mammal was uncovered in the Gobi Desert.
Credit: AMNH/S. Goldberg, M. Novacek
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The phenomic matrix constructed in MorphoBank, including images describing traits.
Credit: Image of Hapalops elongatus by artist John Sibbick, reused courtesy of D. Norman
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The research team's results are described in the Feb. 8 issue of the journal Science.
Credit: Copyright AAAS 2013