He happens to know a desert mammal Fruitafossor. Upon disembarking from the Dinosaur Train, the Pteranodon kids meet Frankie Fruitafossor, a chipmunk-sized mammal.

The 150-million-year-old Fruitafossor, on the other hand, made a living digging termites and other social insects out of the ground like an aardvark, while the Jurassic Vilevolodon was the ...

Other discoveries in the area include Fruitadens – a dinosaur with tusk-like teeth and one of the smallest ever found – named in 2010, and the ant-eating mammal Fruitafossor announced by ...

A flurry of fossil discoveries over the past 15 years is allowing researchers to piece together the rise of mammals ...

The Jurassic mammaliaform Fruitafossor exhibits striking convergent adaptations to armadillos such as reduced enamel-less peglike teeth and xenarthrous vertebral articulations.

From Luo and Wible, 2005. And Docofossor wasn’t the Jurassic’s only burrowing beast. A decade ago, Luo and John Wible named Fruitafossor windscheffeli from the 150 million year old rock of ...

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He happens to know a desert mammal Fruitafossor. Upon disembarking from the Dinosaur Train, the Pteranodon kids meet Frankie Fruitafossor, a chipmunk-sized mammal.

Although similar to Fruitafossor in generalized and robust limb bones, Pseudotribos lacks the tubular postcanines and xenarthran-like lumbars of the latter 12.

First, each of Fruitafossor ‘s molars was hollow and had a single, open-ended root, traits hinting that the teeth grew throughout the animal’s life. Mammals with similar teeth, the insect ...

Fruitafossor windscheffelia was specialized to eat termites. The chipmunk-size creature, discovered in Colorado, lived 150 million years ago--100 million years before the ancestors of today's ...

They found the fossil of a completely new type of animal in Colorado, and said it apparently resembled an armadillo and would have eaten bugs. But the fossil animal, named Fruitafossor ...