Oldest mammal identified at 225 million years old

World’s oldest mammal identified by dental tests. It turned out to be older than the oldest previously confirmed mammal. The age of the shrew-like creature turned out to be about 20 million years earlier. as he wrote CNNThe researchers described the discovery as “very important”.

The Latin name for the “oldest mammal” is Brasilodon quadrangularis. It was a small, shrew-like creature about 20 centimeters long. It lived on earth 225 million years ago, at the same time as some of the earliest dinosaurs. The discovery sheds light on the evolution of modern mammals.

The discovery was made by researchers from the Natural History Museum in London, King’s College London and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre.

Previously, scientists believed that the first mammals they were dying young for its own sake.