{"id":2181,"date":"2026-07-24T20:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/early-miocene-fossil-rewrites-family-tree-of-little-carnivorous-marsupials\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:40:36","slug":"early-miocene-fossil-rewrites-family-tree-of-little-carnivorous-marsupials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/early-miocene-fossil-rewrites-family-tree-of-little-carnivorous-marsupials\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Miocene Fossil Rewrites Family Tree of Little Carnivorous Marsupials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"710\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sci.news\/images\/2026\/07\/image_14944f-Miyumba-chrisdickmani.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"An artist\u2019s reconstruction of Miyumba chrisdickmani in the Early Miocene rainforests of northern Australia. Image credit: Nellie Pease.\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Paleontologists at the University of New South Wales have described a new genus and species of dasyurid marsupial from the Early Miocene of Australia, offering the first solid evidence that the family Dasyuridae &#8212; which today includes quolls, Tasmanian devils and tiny antechinuses &#8212; existed long before scientists had proof of it in the fossil record.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/paleontology\/miyumba-chrisdickmani-14944.html\">Early Miocene Fossil Rewrites Family Tree of Little Carnivorous Marsupials<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\">Sci.News: Breaking Science News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sci.News: Breaking Science News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paleontologists at the University of New South Wales have described a new genus and species of dasyurid marsupial from the Early Miocene of Australia, offering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[319,318],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-breaking-science-news","tag-sci-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}