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The post-apocalyptic beaver

Scientists in Britain say they have discovered an extinct mammal that lived 65 millions years ago, just after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Steve Brusatte, a paleontologist at Edinburgh University, says the beaver-like creature helps understand how mammals survived the asteroid impact and colonised the world as we know it today.

( Drawing of the asteroid survivor. Credit: Sarah Shelley )

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