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Old August 10th, 2017 #88
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It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a prehistoric gliding mammal


In dense Chinese forests populated by dinosaurs 160 million years ago, two furry critters resembling flying squirrels glided from tree to tree, showing that even in such a perilous neighborhood early mammals had succeeded in going airborne.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-s...-idUSKBN1AP2EP