"According to the “establishment,” this interesting mammal lived in China 164 million years ago, about 100 million years before most evolutionary scientists believed mammals filled such niches as swimming, or grew bigger than a shrew. Schmid wrote: “The discovery of a furry, beaver like animal that lived at the same time of dinosaurs overturned more than a century of scientific thinking about Jurassic mammals. The find shows that the ecological role of mammals in the time of dinosaurs was far greater than previously thought.” Wilford added: “In the conventional view, the earliest mammals were small, primitive shrew like creatures that did not begin to explore the world’s varied environments until the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.” He went on in the article to explain that the find totally upsets this conventional view."
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