The 66-million-year-old, opossum-size fossil represents a new species, which the study authors have named "Adalatherium hui," from a Malagasy word meaning “crazy” and the Greek word for ...

They named it Adalatherium hui — the first name, its genus, translates to “crazy beast”; the second, the species name, is in honor of the deceased mammalian scientist Yaoming Hu ...

Named Adalatherium, which, translated from the Malagasy and Greek languages means "crazy beast," it is described based on a nearly complete, exquisitely preserved skeleton, the most complete for ...

The late Yaoming Hu of Stony Brook University was also a co-author. The finding of the new mammal, called Adalatherium, which is translated from the Malagasy and Greek languages and means "crazy ...

WASHINGTON — A new "crazy beast" has been found by researchers in Madagascar. Scientists have discovered the fossil of a bizarre, opossum-sized mammal on the African island. A team led by the ...

The animal’s anatomy was so confounding, researchers named it Adalatherium hui, using a Malagasy word for “crazy” and the Greek word for “beast.” New research, published on April 29 in ...

The ancient mammal Adalatherium hui is so weird that it eluded classification for over a decade. A roughly 70-million-year-old skeleton of the species, uncovered in Madagascar in 1999, was clearly ...

According to a 20 year-long study, published Thursday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the fossil named Adalatherium, fills in some important blanks about ancient mammals from the ...

The cat-sized animal, known as Adalatherium hui or “crazy beast”, has features not found in today’s mammals, so it could be one of evolution’s abandoned experiments in developing new life.

The remnants were uncovered in 1999 from northwestern Madagascar and belonged to Adalatherium hui. A. hui was a mammal that belonged to the now-extinct group Gondwanatherian. Before the discovery ...

A team led by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science uncovered the remains of Adalatherium hui, a new species to science. They said it lived 66 million years ago, among dinosaurs and huge ...