Before Dinosaur Extinction, Rodent-Like Mammals were Already Flourishing in Ancient Arctic

A reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous paleoenvironment of Alaska. Image credit: James Havens.

Paleontologists have described three previously unknown species of multituberculate mammals — named Camurodon borealis, Qayaqgruk peregrinus, and Kaniqsiqcosmodon polaris — that lived in polar forests about 73 million years ago.

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