{"id":226329,"date":"2024-05-31T02:40:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T02:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/fossil-trove-reveals-three-new-species-of-ancient-egg-laying-mammals\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:18:22","slug":"fossil-trove-reveals-three-new-species-of-ancient-egg-laying-mammals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/fossil-trove-reveals-three-new-species-of-ancient-egg-laying-mammals\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil trove reveals three new species of ancient egg-laying mammals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Illustration of six ancient monotreme species whose fossilised remains were found at Lightning Ridge, Australia<\/p>\n

Illustration by Peter Shouten<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

From inside an old safe in the Australian Museum in Sydney, palaeontologist Tim Flannery<\/a> carefully removes a shoe-box-sized container and places it on a table. Inside are more boxes and containers, like a Russian doll.<\/p>\n

Once the contents are fully revealed and spread out, there are nine tiny fragments of fossilised<\/a> jawbones. If Flannery and his colleagues are right, before us is a glimpse into a lost world \u2013 a previously unknown chapter of mammal\u2026<\/p>\n

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Article amended on 28 May 2024<\/h4>\n

A statement about the Australian Museum\u2019s purchase of the Steropodon<\/em> fossil was corrected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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