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Published online 12 January 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050110-11
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Prehistoric badger had dinosaurs for breakfast
Fossil of a surprisingly large, carnivorous mammal is discovered in China.
Palaeontologists have dug up a new species of mammal that roamed China during the reign of the dinosaurs. The creature was large enough to feast on young dinosaurs, exploding the myth that all of the mammals living back then were relatively tiny.
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