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The ancestor of all placental mammals—the diverse lineage that includes almost all species of mammals living today, including humans—was a tiny, furry-tailed creature that evolved shortly after the dinosaurs disappeared, a new study suggests.

"These new findings call for a reevaluation of the evolutionary story of placental mammals," says Anne Yoder, an evolutionary biologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who wasn't involved in the work.