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- A mammal that lived 66 million years ago has been named "crazy beast" due to its extremely bizarre body makeup.
- The creature is like a random assortment of body parts from other animals and has teeth like nobody has ever seen before.
- The discovery and classification of the creature is the subject of a new paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Oftentimes when paleontologists are studying the remains of an ancient creature they have a pretty good idea of its lineage from the moment they lay eyes on it. In fact, some new species are so similar to creatures that are already in the scientific record that researchers spend months or even years sussing out the tiniest differences in order to correctly identify a new species. In the case of an ancient mammal named Adalatherium, determining that it was a new species was fairly straightforward, but understanding its place in the massive tree of life was still quite a challenge.
You see, the animal is such a strange mix of features from other species that figuring out where they fit in the world of mammals took a long time. In fact, some of the features the animal possesses has left researchers still scratching their heads.
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