A small marsupial relative that lived with the dinosaurs 69 million years ago has been discovered in the Arctic. The creature, which was the size of a mouse, lived on the northernmost landmass which means that at that high latitude it would have been in complete darkness for four months of the year.
Jaelyn Eberle, who is the curator of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Colorado, Boulder Museum of Natural History, and one of the people who discovered the new species, discussed the surprising discovery by saying, “We don’t think about finding tiny marsupials at 85 degrees north latitude.”
Although the Earth’s climate was warmer 69 million...
