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...Harvard biologist yesterday announced that an expedition he led this summer unearthed remains of a mammal previously unknown in North America, and now believed to be the oldest mammal specimen on the continent...
Farish A. Jenkins Jr., professor of Biology and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said at a press conference in Washington, D.C., the discovery "shows us that mammals were more diverse than we had thought at the very beginning of mammal evolution...
...time you're out there digging and you don't see anything," Schaff said. "But this specimen was so well preserved that you looked down and it was readily observable that it was a mammal...
...expedition also uncovered the skeleton of an advanced mammal-like reptile, the remains of several small dinosaurs about the size of chickens, a representative of the earliest known American turtle, and other lizards and reptiles not yet studied...
...This is enough, I thought. Enough, for sure. And I was winding through the other, roaring bear cages when Gallen screamed, Schrutt's out! I thought. But when I squinted through cage corners and down the dark paths toward the Small Mammal House, I saw a man-shaped figure, loping more or less on all fours, turn the corner by the Monkey Complex-followed by another just like him, though not as thick in the chest. The orangutan and the lowland gorilla, in cahoots...