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'Cute Furball' is Best-Preserved Mammal from Dinosaur Age

WASHINGTON: Scurrying under the feet of dinosaurs in swampy terrain in Spain around 125 million years ago was a furry chipmunk-sized critter with tiny hedgehog-like spines, horny body armor and an unpleasant fungal hair infection. This intrepid little guy now is providing the best look ever at the mammals that thrived during the Mesozoic Era, the age of dinosaurs. Scientists on Wednesday announced the discovery near the Spanish town of […]