A cat-sized mammal dubbed "crazy beast" lived on Madagascar among some of the last dinosaurs to walk the Earth, scientists have revealed.
The 66-million-year-old fossil is described in the journal Nature.
Its discovery challenges previous assumptions that mammals were generally very small - the size of mice - at this point in their evolutionary history.
Researchers say this individual animal weighed 3kg and had not reached its full adult size.
Scientists think that the badger-like creature, known as Adalatherium hui, would have burrowed...
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