Skip to content
🌐 Global🇮🇳 India📍 Asia-Pacific📍 Bihar📍 Delhi-NCR📍 East India📍 Europe📍 Gujarat📍 Karnataka📍 Kerala📍 Madhya Pradesh📍 Maharashtra📍 Middle East📍 North India📍 Northeast India📍 Punjab📍 Rajasthan📍 South India📍 Tamil Nadu📍 Telangana📍 United Kingdom📍 United States📍 Uttar Pradesh📍 West Bengal📍 West India
LIVE
Home / Science
Science

One ancient swimming mammal fossil and two evolutionary surprises, including a third set of teeth

What may have looked like a cross between a platypus and a beaverlike rodent and lived around 120 million years ago? Dongoconodon platycauda, a newly discovered fossil mammal from northeastern China. Beyond its unusual features, such as evidence of webbed paddling feet and a rudderlike tail, this se

Phys.org ScienceOctober 8, 20261 min read
Share this story
One ancient swimming mammal fossil and two evolutionary surprises, including a third set of teeth

What may have looked like a cross between a platypus and a beaverlike rodent and lived around 120 million years ago? Dongoconodon platycauda, a newly discovered fossil mammal from northeastern China. Beyond its unusual features, such as evidence of webbed paddling feet and a rudderlike tail, this semiaquatic mammal had a surprise waiting for scientists in its jaw: a third generation of teeth.

📡 Verified Wire Agency Verified Resource & Provenance
✉
The Next Brief
Get the day's most important stories in one email
AI-curated morning digest. No noise. Unsubscribe anytime.

Comments 0

Advertisement

Related stories

Most read

  1. 1How Telangana’s MeeSeva migration to open source could make governments rethink software costsPolitics
  2. 2Milk price in Karnataka may go up by ₹8, but only after Legislative Council pollsPolitics
  3. 3MHT-CET 2027: Stakeholders for offline examTop Stories
  4. 4Govt likely to sign BIT with Saudi ArabiaBusiness
  5. 5Global soil erosion outpaces natural recovery, report warnsScience