New cretaceous mammal provides evidence for separation of hearing and chewing modules
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

A joint research team led by Mao Fangyuan from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Meng Jin from the American Museum of Natural History reported a new symmetrodont, Origolestes lii, a stem therian mammal from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota, in China`s Liaoning Province.