Fossil analysis is shedding new light on the origins of egg-laying mammals and their arrival on the continent
Mysteriously, their analysis found the oldest echidna in the Australian fossil record dated back just 2m years, relatively recent in the species evolutionary history. “It’s tens of millions of years since echidnas and platypuses have shared a common ancestor,” Helgen said.
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