From inside an previous protected within the Australian Museum in Sydney, palaeontologist Tim Flannery fastidiously removes a shoe-box-sized container and locations it on a desk. Inside are extra packing containers and containers, like a Russian doll.
As soon as the contents are absolutely revealed and unfold out, there are 9 tiny fragments of fossilised jawbones. If Flannery and his colleagues are proper, earlier than us is a glimpse right into a misplaced world – a beforehand unknown chapter of mammal…
Article amended on 28 Could 2024
A press release concerning the Australian Museum’s buy of the Steropodon fossil was corrected.